The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 58
When we came to her house, which was some distance off, she opened the door and then said to me, "Come in, come in; you will never be sorry that you followed me."
Who acts: we, house, woman, you · What happens: come off, be, open, say, come in, not be · To what, where: distance, door, me, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, house, woman, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distance | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 distance | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distance | cop |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 came | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 opened | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 said | advmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Come | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Come | punct |
| 25 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 Come | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Come | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorry | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 sorry | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 sorry | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 sorry | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sorry | cop |
| 35 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 opened | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 followed | mark |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 followed | nsubj |
| 38 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sorry | advcl |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 followed | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorry | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come off | past | we | to woman's house and some distance | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | woman's house and some distance | some distance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past | woman | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | me | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | come in in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | come in in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | not is in a quote | future | you | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | follow in a quote | past | you | woman | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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