The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 95
On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall.
Who acts: owner · What happens: notice, light, be · To what, where: open door, landing, lighted hall
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 (owner), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 landing | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 landing | det |
| 3 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 landing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hall | punct |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hall | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hall | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 15 | faintly | faintly | ADV | _ | 16 lighted | advmod |
| 16 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hall | amod |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | owner | a open door and a lighted hall | a landing | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | light | participle | faintly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | owner not said here | a lighted hall | beyond a open door and a lighted hall | tree rules |
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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