The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 67

He went to the gate, which stood half open, and went in, as nobody came when he knocked.

Who acts: Sultan, gate, nobody · What happens: go, stand, go in, come, knock · To what, where: gate, half

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, gate, nobody), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stood	nsubj
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gate	acl:relcl
9	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 stood	obj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 half	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 knocked	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knocked	nsubj
21	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Sultan		the gate	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	stand	past	the gate	half		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus
3	go in	past				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	nobody			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock	past	Sultan			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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