The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 17

When they had spoken the girl upset the pan, and entered the opening in the wall, which at once closed, and appeared the same as before.

Who acts: debts, spoken girl · What happens: speak, upset, enter, close, appear · To what, where: pan, opening, wall, same · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debts, spoken girl), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spoken	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoken	aux
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 girl	amod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 girl	det
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 upset	nsubj
7	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pan	det
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 upset	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 entered	cc
12	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 opening	det
14	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wall	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 entered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 closed	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 closed	nsubj:pass
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	22 closed	mark
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 closed	advmod
22	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wall	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 appeared	cc
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 appeared	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 before	case
29	before	before	ADV	_	25 appeared	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 upset	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · perfect	debts = debt				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	upset	past	the spoken girl	the pan			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pan=Experiencer
3	enter	past	the spoken girl not said here	the opening	the wall		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme opening=Destination
4	close	participle · passive		the wall		once property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	appear	past	the spoken girl not said here	the same			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=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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