The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 9
But scarcely had she done so when the walls of the kitchen opened, and there came out a young and beautiful damsel.
Who acts: cook, walls · What happens: have, do, open, come out · To what, where: cook, young damsel
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, walls), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 opened | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 opened | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walls | nmod |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 came | expl |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 damsel | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 damsel | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 young | conj |
| 23 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | cook | scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | participle | cook not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | past | the walls of the kitchen | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out | past | a young damsel | there | 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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