The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

When she was about to turn them on the other side, the wall opened, the damsel appeared, addressed the same words to the fish, received the same answer, and then overturned the pan and disappeared.

Who acts: cook, wall, damsel · What happens: be, turn, open, appear, address, receive · To what, where: fish, other side, same words, same answer, pan

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 (cook, wall, damsel), 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 about	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 about	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	cop
4	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 turn	mark
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 about	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turn	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 side	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 side	amod
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 opened	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opened	nsubj
15	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 about	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 appeared	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 damsel	det
18	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 appeared	nsubj
19	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 opened	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 addressed	punct
21	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 appeared	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 addressed	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 fish	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fish	det
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 words	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 received	punct
29	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 addressed	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 answer	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 answer	amod
32	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 received	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 overturned	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 overturned	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 overturned	advmod
36	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 appeared	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pan	det
38	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 overturned	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 disappeared	cc
40	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 overturned	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	cook				about property	tree rules
2	turn	to-infinitive	cook not said here	fish	the other side			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	open	past	the wall					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appear	past	the damsel					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	address	past	the damsel not said here	the same words			to the fish	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Destination
6	receive	past	the damsel not said here	the same answer				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
7	overturn	past	the damsel not said here	the pan		then		tree rules
8	disappear	past	the damsel not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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