The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 22

The porter looked about him, noticing and admiring everything; but his attention was specially attracted by a third lady sitting on the throne, who was even more beautiful than the other two.

Who acts: porter, third lady, throne, lion · What happens: look, notice, admire, attract, sit, be · To what, where: everything, attention, throne

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 (porter, third lady, throne, lion), 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 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 noticing	punct
7	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looked	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 admiring	cc
9	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 noticing	conj
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 admiring	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 attracted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 attracted	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 attention	nmod:poss
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attracted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 attracted	aux:pass
16	specially	specially	ADV	_	17 attracted	advmod
17	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 looked	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 lady	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lady	det
20	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 lady	amod
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attracted	obl
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lady	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 throne	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 throne	det
25	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beautiful	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 beautiful	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beautiful	cop
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 more	advmod
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 beautiful	advmod
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 throne	acl:relcl
32	than	than	ADP	_	35 two	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 two	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 two	amod
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 beautiful	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	the porter			about lion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	notice	gerund	the porter not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	admire	gerund	the porter not said here	everything			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	attract	past · passive	a third lady	lion's attention		specially property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
5	sit	gerund	a third lady not said here		the throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
6	is	past	the throne			than the other two; beautiful property	tree rules
7	attend		lion				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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