The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 46

While the old woman was eating, the princess put several questions to her as to her mode of life, and the pious exercises she practiced, and then inquired what she thought of the house now that she had seen it.

Who acts: old woman, princess, pious exercises · What happens: eat, put, practice, inquire, think, see · To what, where: several questions, woman, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, princess, pious exercises), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eating	aux
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 put	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 questions	amod
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obl
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 mode	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mode	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mode	nmod:poss
18	mode	mode	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 life	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mode	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 practiced	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 practiced	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 exercises	det
24	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 exercises	amod
25	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 practiced	nsubj
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 practiced	nsubj
27	practiced	practice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 inquired	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 inquired	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 inquired	advmod
31	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 practiced	conj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 thought	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 inquired	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 house	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obl
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 seen	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 seen	mark
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seen	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 seen	aux
42	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 thought	ccomp
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 seen	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	the old woman					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	past	the princess	several questions	woman		as woman's mode of life	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
3	practice	past	the pious exercises					vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	inquire speech: other	past	the pious exercises not said here			then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	princess				of the house	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
6	see	past · perfect	princess	house		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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