The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 30

The princes stood up respectfully, but quite at their ease, and the Sultan looked at them for a few moments without speaking, then he asked who they were and where they lived.

Who acts: princes, Sultan, people · What happens: stand up, look, speak, ask, be, live · To what, where: ease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, Sultan, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princes	det
2	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stood	compound:prt
5	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ease	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 ease	cc
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 ease	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 ease	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ease	nmod:poss
11	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sultan	det
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 moments	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moments	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moments	amod
22	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 looked	obl
23	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 speaking	mark
24	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 looked	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 asked	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 asked	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	nsubj
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	28 asked	ccomp
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 who	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 who	cop
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lived	cc
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 lived	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 were	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the princes	people's ease		respectfully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
2	look	past	the Sultan		moment	at people	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	speak speech: other	gerund	the Sultan not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	Sultan		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	people				tree rules
6	live	past	people				vn exist-47.1-1 «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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