The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 54

It all happened as the Sultan had foreseen, and the two brothers appeared in their sister's apartments just as she was in the act of stepping into bed, and told their tale.

Who acts: It, Sultan, two brothers, sister, act, brothers · What happens: happen, have, appear, be, step, tell · To what, where: apartments, bed, tale · 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 (It, Sultan, two brothers, sister), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
8	foreseen	foreseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 had	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 appeared	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 appeared	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brothers	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 brothers	nummod
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appeared	nsubj
14	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 apartments	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 apartments	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 sister	case
19	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 appeared	obl
20	just	just	ADV	_	26 act	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	26 act	case
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 act	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 act	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 act	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 act	det
26	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 appeared	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 stepping	mark
28	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 act	acl
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 bed	case
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stepping	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 appeared	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tale	nmod:poss
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			all property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the Sultan			foreseen property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	appear	past	the two brothers		brothers's sister's apartments		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in apartment=Location
4	is	past	sister			as the act	tree rules
5	step	gerund	the act not said here		bed		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bed=Destination
6	tell speech: assert	past	the two brothers not said here	brothers's tale			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
7	tell		brothers = brother				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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