The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 90

But one afternoon, when I was half asleep, and was being fanned by two of her maids, I heard one say to the other, "What a pity it is that our mistress no longer loves our master!

Who acts: I, one, pity, mistress · What happens: be, fan, hear, say, love · To what, where: other, mistress, master · 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 (I, one, pity, mistress), 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 afternoon	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 afternoon	nummod
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 asleep	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afternoon	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fanned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fanned	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fanned	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fanned	aux:pass
14	fanned	fan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asleep	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 fanned	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 maids	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 maids	nmod:poss
19	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 two	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fanned	conj
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 say	nsubj
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 heard	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 other	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 say	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 What	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 What	punct
30	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 heard	obl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 pity	det
32	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mistress	nsubj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mistress	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 mistress	cop
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 mistress	mark
36	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mistress	nmod:poss
37	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 What	acl:relcl
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 longer	advmod
39	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 loves	advmod
40	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 mistress	acl:relcl
41	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 master	nmod:poss
42	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 loves	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 afternoon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			asleep, half property	tree rules
2	fan	past · passive	I not said here			by two of story's maids	tree rules
3	hear	past	I				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	one		the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present	a pity	our mistress			tree rules
6	love in a quote	present	our mistress not said here	our master		long property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus

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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