The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
Then the wall of the room opened, but instead of the maiden a black slave came out.
Who acts: wall, black slave · What happens: open, come out
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 (wall, black slave), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | nmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 maiden | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 maiden | cc |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 13 maiden | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 instead | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opened | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 slave | det |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slave | amod |
| 16 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 maiden | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the wall of the room | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | a black slave | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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