The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 62

Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covered with delicious fruits; while during the repast richly dressed girls sang softly and sweetly to stringed instruments.

What happens: lay, cover, dress, sing · To what, where: Dinner, magnificent apartment, table, stringed instruments

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: 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	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	aux:pass
3	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 apartment	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apartment	det
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apartment	amod
7	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 covered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 covered	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 table	det
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 covered	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 covered	aux:pass
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 laid	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 fruits	case
15	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fruits	amod
16	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sang	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 sang	mark
19	during	during	ADP	_	21 repast	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 repast	det
21	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sang	obl
22	richly	richly	ADV	_	23 dressed	advmod
23	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 girls	amod
24	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 repast	nmod
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
26	softly	softly	ADV	_	25 sang	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sweetly	cc
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	26 softly	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 instruments	case
30	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 instruments	amod
31	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · passive	Dinner		a magnificent apartment			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in apartment=Destination
2	cover	past · passive	the table				with delicious fruits	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fruit=Theme
3	dress	participle					richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sing speech: express	past		stringed instruments		during the repast dressed girls	softly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to instrument=Recipient

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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