The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 66

When he came near to it he saw it was a splendid palace of beautiful black polished marble, covered with steel as smooth as a mirror.

Who acts: Sultan, front · What happens: come, see, be, polish, cover · To what, where: front, splendid palace, beautiful black polished marble · 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 (Sultan, front), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	near	near	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 palace	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 palace	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 palace	det
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palace	amod
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 marble	case
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 marble	amod
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 marble	amod
17	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 marble	amod
18	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palace	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 covered	punct
20	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 marble	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 steel	case
22	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 smooth	case
24	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 covered	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 mirror	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 mirror	det
27	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 covered	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Sultan		front	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
2	see	past	Sultan				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	front	a splendid palace		of beautiful black polished marble	tree rules
4	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	cover	participle		beautiful black polished marble not said here		with steel; as smooth; as a mirror	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with steel=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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