The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 10

It was opened by an old man with a long white beard, to whom the lady held out money without speaking.

Who acts: old man, lady · What happens: open, hold out, speak · To what, where: door, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, lady), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	aux:pass
3	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 beard	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beard	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beard	amod
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beard	amod
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whom	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 opened	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lady	det
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whom	nsubj
18	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lady	acl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 held	compound:prt
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 held	obj
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 speaking	mark
22	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 held	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	open	past · passive	a old man with a long white beard	door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	hold out	participle	the lady not said here	money	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	speak speech: other	gerund	the lady not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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