The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 59
When I had entered she fastened the door, and took me into a large room, where a beautiful girl was working at a piece of embroidery. "
Who acts: I, woman, beautiful girl · What happens: enter, fasten, take, work · To what, where: door, me, large room
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, beautiful girl), 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 | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | aux |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fastened | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fastened | nsubj |
| 6 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fastened | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fastened | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 took | iobj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 room | amod |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 working | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 working | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 working | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 working | aux |
| 23 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 took | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 piece | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 piece | det |
| 26 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 working | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 embroidery | case |
| 28 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 piece | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fastened | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · perfect | I | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fasten | past | woman | the door | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | woman not said here | me | a large room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 4 | work | past · progressive | a beautiful girl | at a piece of embroidery | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at piece=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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