The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 55

However I let her go on a little way, and merely stood at the door watching her.

Who acts: I, woman · What happens: let, go, stand, watch · To what, where: woman, little way, door

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 (I, woman), 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	However	however	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
12	merely	merely	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stood	xcomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 watching	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	I	woman		however property	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	woman not said here		a little way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	stand	past	I not said here		the door	merely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	watch	gerund	I not said here	woman			vn assessment-34.1 «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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