The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 15

The lady laughed, and told him she had not finished yet, but after choosing various kinds of scents and spices from a druggist's store, she halted before a magnificent palace, at the door of which she knocked gently.

Who acts: lady, porter · What happens: laugh, tell, not finish, choose, halt, knock · To what, where: horse, various kinds, store, door · 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 (lady, porter), 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	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 finished	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 finished	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 finished	advmod
11	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 finished	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 halted	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 halted	cc
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 choosing	mark
16	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 halted	advcl
17	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kinds	amod
18	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 choosing	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 scents	case
20	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kinds	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spices	cc
22	spices	spice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 scents	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 store	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 druggist	det
25	druggist	druggist	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 store	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 druggist	case
27	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 choosing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 choosing	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 halted	nsubj
30	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
31	before	before	ADP	_	34 palace	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 palace	det
33	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 palace	amod
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 halted	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 door	punct
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 door	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 door	det
38	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 halted	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 knocked	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 knocked	nsubj
42	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 door	acl:relcl
43	gently	gently	ADV	_	42 knocked	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the lady						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the lady not said here		horse				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not finish	past · perfect	porter				yet		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	choose	gerund	porter not said here	various kinds of scents and spices		a druggist's store			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent kind=Theme from store=Source
5	halt	past	porter			the door	before a magnificent palace		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	knock	past	porter					of the door; gently property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of which=Co-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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