The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

The lady who had led him hither stood watching him with amusement, till the porteress exclaimed, "Why don't you come in, my sister?

Who acts: lady, porteress, you · What happens: lead, stand, watch, exclaim, not come in · To what, where: man, sister · 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, porteress, you), 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	8 stood	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 led	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 led	aux
5	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lady	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 led	obj
7	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 led	advmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stood	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watching	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 amusement	case
12	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watching	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exclaimed	punct
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 exclaimed	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 porteress	det
16	porteress	porteress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 exclaimed	nsubj
17	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
20	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
22	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 come	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 exclaimed	conj
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sister	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead	past · perfect	the lady	man	hither property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stand	past	the lady			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	watch	gerund	the lady not said here	man	with amusement	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	exclaim speech: express	past	the porteress			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	not come in in a quote	present · do-support	you	my sister		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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