The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
When they were both inside the door was fastened, and they all three entered a large court, surrounded by an open-work gallery.
Who acts: Ladies · What happens: fasten, enter, surround · To what, where: Ladies, door, large court
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 (Ladies), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fastened | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fastened | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fastened | aux:pass |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 9 fastened | advmod |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fastened | aux:pass |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 three | det |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 entered | nsubj |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fastened | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 court | amod |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 surrounded | punct |
| 20 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 court | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 gallery | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 gallery | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 work | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gallery | compound |
| 26 | gallery | gallery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past · passive | Ladies = lady | the door | both property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | enter | past | Ladies = lady | a large court | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Destination | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | a large court not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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