The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 71

And the first time that they had the opportunity of speaking to each other, which was not till several days later at a public bath, they did not attempt to disguise their feelings.

Who acts: festivities, opportunity · What happens: have, speak, not be, not disguise · To what, where: opportunity, public bath, feelings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festivities, opportunity), 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	_	4 time	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 opportunity	det
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 speaking	mark
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 opportunity	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 each	case
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 speaking	obl
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 attempt	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 attempt	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 attempt	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 attempt	advmod
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 attempt	mark
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 days	amod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 later	obl:unmarked
22	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 attempt	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 bath	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bath	det
25	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bath	amod
26	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 attempt	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bath	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 attempt	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 attempt	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 attempt	advmod
31	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 opportunity	appos
32	to	to	PART	_	33 disguise	mark
33	disguise	disguise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 attempt	xcomp
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feelings	nmod:poss
35	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 disguise	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	festivities = festivity	the opportunity			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
2	speak speech: other	gerund	the opportunity not said here			to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
3	not is	past · do-support	the opportunity		a public bath	attempt, late property	tree rules
4	not disguise	to-infinitive	the opportunity not said here	festivities's feelings			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feeling=Destination

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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