The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 69

He entered large halls where the carpets were of silk, the lounges and sofas covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver.

Who acts: Sultan, carpets · What happens: enter, be, cover · To what, where: large halls, lounges, Mecca

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, carpets), 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 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 halls	amod
4	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 entered	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 silk	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carpets	det
7	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 silk	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 silk	cop
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 silk	case
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 halls	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lounges	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lounges	det
13	lounges	lounge	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 silk	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sofas	cc
15	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lounges	conj
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lounges	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 tapestry	case
18	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 Mecca	case
20	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hangings	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hangings	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hangings	det
24	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 entered	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 stuffs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stuffs	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 beautiful	advmod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stuffs	amod
29	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stuffs	amod
30	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hangings	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 gold	case
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stuffs	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 silver	cc
34	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gold	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Sultan	large halls		the hangings of the beautiful Indian stuffs of gold and silver obl	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination
2	is	past	the carpets			of silk and the lounges and sofas	tree rules
3	cover	participle		the lounges and sofas not said here	Mecca	with tapestry	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tapestry=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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