The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 16

The porteress who opened it was of such beauty that the eyes of the man were quite dazzled, and he was the more astonished as he saw clearly that she was no slave.

Who acts: porteress, man, porter · What happens: open, be, dazzle, see · To what, where: porteress, eyes, slave

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 (porteress, man, 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 porteress	det
2	porteress	porteress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beauty	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 porteress	acl:relcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opened	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 beauty	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beauty	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beauty	amod
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dazzled	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eyes	det
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dazzled	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eyes	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dazzled	aux:pass
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 dazzled	advmod
18	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beauty	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 astonished	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 astonished	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 astonished	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 astonished	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 astonished	det
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 astonished	advmod
25	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beauty	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 saw	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 astonished	ccomp
29	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	28 saw	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 slave	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slave	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 slave	cop
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 slave	det
34	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saw	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 beauty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the porteress	porteress		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	past	the porteress		of such beauty	tree rules
3	dazzle	past · passive		the eyes of the man		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	is	past	man		astonished property	tree rules
5	see	past	man		clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	porter	no slave		tree rules

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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