The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 53

She stood gazing at me attentively for some time, then paid for the bread, and left the shop, making a sign for me to follow her secretly.

Who acts: woman, me · What happens: stand, gaze, pay, leave, make, follow · To what, where: shop, sign, woman

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, me), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gazing	gaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gazing	obl
6	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	3 gazing	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gazing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 paid	advmod
12	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 bread	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bread	det
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 left	cc
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shop	det
20	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 making	punct
22	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 left	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sign	det
24	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 making	obj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 follow	mark
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 follow	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 follow	mark
28	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 making	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 follow	obj
30	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	28 follow	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	woman				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	gaze	gerund	woman not said here		time	at me; attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
3	pay	past	woman not said here		then	for the bread	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bread=Theme
4	leave	past	woman not said here	the shop			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme
5	make	gerund	woman not said here	a sign			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
6	follow	to-infinitive	me	woman		secretly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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