The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 3

Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and he noticed a bright light shining through a curtain in one corner.

Who acts: Firouz, eyes, prince, bright light · What happens: stand, look, grow, accustom, notice, shine · To what, where: bright light, curtain

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 (Firouz, eyes, prince, bright light), 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 looked	advcl
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	3 still	advmod
3	still	still	ADV	_	1 Standing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Standing	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Firouz	nmod:desc
6	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
7	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Firouz	flat
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	conj
16	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 grew	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 gloom	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gloom	det
19	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 accustomed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 noticed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 noticed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 noticed	nsubj
23	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 light	det
25	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 light	amod
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 noticed	obj
27	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 light	acl
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 curtain	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 curtain	det
30	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shining	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 corner	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 corner	nummod
33	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shining	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	Firouz Prince not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Firouz Prince				about prince	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
3	grow	past	prince's eyes					tree rules
4	accustom	participle	prince's eyes not said here				to the gloom	tree rules
5	notice	past	prince	a bright light				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
6	shine	gerund	a bright light not said here		a curtain		in one corner	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through curtain=Location

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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