The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 30

They had the best masters for the fine arts, geography, poetry, history and science, and even for sciences which are learned by few, and every branch seemed so easy to them, that their teachers were astonished at the progress they made.

Who acts: studies, branch · What happens: have, learn, seem, astonish, make · To what, where: best masters, sciences, teachers, progress

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 (studies, branch), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 masters	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 masters	amod
5	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 arts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 arts	det
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arts	amod
9	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 masters	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 geography	punct
11	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arts	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poetry	punct
13	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 arts	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 history	punct
15	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poetry	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 science	cc
17	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poetry	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sciences	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sciences	cc
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 sciences	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 sciences	case
22	sciences	science	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 learned	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 learned	aux:pass
25	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sciences	acl:relcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 few	case
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 learned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seemed	cc
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 branch	det
31	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 seemed	nsubj
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 easy	advmod
34	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 seemed	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 easy	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 astonished	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 astonished	mark
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 teachers	nmod:poss
40	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 astonished	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 astonished	aux:pass
42	astonished	astonish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 seemed	conj
43	at	at	ADP	_	45 progress	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 progress	det
45	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 astonished	obl
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 made	nsubj
47	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 progress	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	studies = study	the best masters		for the fine arts and geography; for sciences	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient
2	learn	present · passive		sciences		by few	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	seem	past	every branch			easy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	astonish	past · passive		studies's teachers	the progress		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	make	past	studies = study	the progress not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product

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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