The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 92
In one corner of the terrace stood a small door, opening on to a staircase which led down into the palace.
Who acts: staircase · What happens: stand, open on, lead down · To what, where: small door, one corner, staircase, palace
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 corner | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 corner | nummod |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 terrace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 terrace | det |
| 6 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opening | punct |
| 12 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stood | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 opening | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 staircase | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 staircase | det |
| 16 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 led | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a small door | one corner of the terrace | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent door=Theme in corner=Destination | ||||
| 2 | open on | gerund | a staircase | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to staircase=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | lead down | past | a staircase | the palace | down property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into palace=Destination |
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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