The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 13
A small door opened straight into the garden, and the first object that met the Sultan's eyes was the Golden Water.
Who acts: small door, first object · What happens: open, meet, be · To what, where: garden, eyes, Golden Water
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small door, first object), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 door | amod |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 garden | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Water | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Water | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 object | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 object | amod |
| 13 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Water | nsubj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 object | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 met | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Water | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Water | det |
| 22 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Water | amod |
| 23 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a small door | the garden | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into garden=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the first object | the Sultan's eyes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the first object | the Golden Water | tree rules |
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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