The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 17
Let a box be built for her at the door of the principal mosque, and let the window of the box be always open.
Who acts: you, window · What happens: let, build, be · To what, where: box, door, window
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, window), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 built | aux:pass |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 box | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 built | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mosque | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mosque | det |
| 13 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mosque | amod |
| 14 | mosque | mosque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 box | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 box | det |
| 22 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 window | nmod |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 open | advmod |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 be | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | a box | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | build | infinitive · passive | a box not said here | the door of the principal mosque | for passion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the window of the box | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | the window of the box not said here | open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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