The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 19

At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily, and snatching up some of the tapers which lighted the room, conducted the prince to a large and lofty room, where two of the number prepared his bed, and the rest went down to the kitchen, from which they soon returned with all sorts of dishes.

Who acts: attendants, tapers, two, rest · What happens: rise, dress, snatch up, light, conduct, prepare · To what, where: sign, attendants, some, room, prince, large room

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, tapers, two, rest), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sign	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mistress	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mistress	nmod:poss
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dressed	punct
10	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 dressed	obj
12	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	10 dressed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 conducted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 conducted	cc
15	snatching	snatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 conducted	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 snatching	compound:prt
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 snatching	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tapers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tapers	det
20	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 some	nmod
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lighted	nsubj
22	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tapers	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lighted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 snatching	punct
26	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conducted	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	34 room	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 room	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lofty	cc
33	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 large	conj
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 conducted	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 prepared	punct
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 prepared	advmod
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 prepared	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 number	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 number	det
40	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 two	nmod
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 room	parataxis
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 bed	nmod:poss
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 prepared	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 went	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 went	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rest	det
47	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	nsubj
48	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
49	down	down	ADV	_	48 went	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 kitchen	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 kitchen	det
52	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 went	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 returned	punct
54	from	from	ADP	_	55 which	case
55	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 returned	obl
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 returned	nsubj
57	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 returned	advmod
58	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 went	conj
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 sorts	case
60	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	61 sorts	det
61	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 returned	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	63 dishes	case
63	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 sorts	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	attendants = attendant		a sign from attendants's mistress		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sign=Location
2	dress	past	attendants = attendant not said here	attendants = attendant		hastily property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	snatch up	gerund		some			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	light	past	the tapers	the room			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product
5	conduct	past	attendants = attendant not said here	the prince	a large room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to room=Destination
6	prepare	past	two of the number	prince's bed			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
7	go down	past	the rest			to the kitchen; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	return	past	attendants = attendant			with all sorts of dishes; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location
9	sort			dishes			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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