The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 30

And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in all the Indies, that no one was allowed to wear except members of the royal family.

Who acts: ladies, one · What happens: put, allow, wear · To what, where: robe, shoulders, one, members

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 (ladies, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 put	cc
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 shoulders	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoulders	nmod:poss
4	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ladies	nmod:poss
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 robe	det
9	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stuff	det
12	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 stuff	amod
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 robe	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Indies	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 Indies	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Indies	det
17	Indies	indy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stuff	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 allowed	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 allowed	mark
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 allowed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 allowed	aux:pass
23	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 put	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wear	mark
25	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 allowed	xcomp
26	except	except	ADP	_	27 members	case
27	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wear	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 family	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 family	det
30	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 family	amod
31	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 members	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	princess's ladies	a robe of the richest stuff in all Indies	princess's shoulders	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme over shoulder=Destination
2	allow	past · passive		no one		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	wear not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	members of the royal family		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent member=Source

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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