The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 11

The old man, who seemed to understand what she wanted, vanished into the house, and returned bringing a large jar of wine, which the porter placed in his basket.

Who acts: old man, porter, large jar · What happens: seem, understand, want, vanish, return, bring · To what, where: house, large jar, porter, basket

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, porter, large jar), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 understand	mark
8	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 seemed	xcomp
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 understand	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wanted	nsubj
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vanished	punct
13	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wanted	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vanished	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 returned	cc
19	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	conj
20	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 returned	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 jar	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 jar	amod
23	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bringing	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 wine	case
25	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jar	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 porter	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 porter	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 porter	det
29	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 jar	conj
30	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 porter	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 basket	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 basket	nmod:poss
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seem	past	the old man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	understand	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	want	past	porter			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	vanish	past	porter not said here		the house	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	past	the old man not said here			tree rules
6	bring	gerund	the old man not said here	a large jar of wine and the porter		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jar=Theme
7	porter		a large jar of wine and the porter			tree rules
8	place	participle		the porter not said here	man's basket	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination

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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