The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 86

She has circulated a story that, while at dinner with her, you remembered some important business that had to be done at once, and left the house without shutting the door.

Who acts: story, important business · What happens: circulate, remember, have, do, leave, shut · To what, where: daughter, important business, dinner, house, 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 (story, important business), 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	3 circulated	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 circulated	aux
3	circulated	circulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 circulated	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remembered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 remembered	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembered	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dinner	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dinner	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 story	acl:relcl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 business	det
17	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 business	amod
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remembered	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 business	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 done	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux:pass
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 done	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 left	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 left	cc
28	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 remembered	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obj
31	without	without	SCONJ	_	32 shutting	mark
32	shutting	shut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 left	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shutting	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 circulated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	circulate	present · perfect · passive		daughter		tree rules
2	remember	past	a story	some important business	dinner with daughter	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent business=Theme
3	have	past	some important business			tree rules
4	do	to-infinitive · passive	some important business not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»
5	leave	past	a story not said here	the house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	shut	gerund	a story not said here	the door		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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