The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 37

The three ladies were pleased with the song, and then sang themselves, so that the repast was a merry one, and lasted much longer than usual.

Who acts: three ladies, repast · What happens: be, sing, last · To what, where: Ladies, merry one

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 (three ladies, repast), 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	3 ladies	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ladies	nummod
3	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pleased	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 song	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sang	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sang	advmod
12	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 sang	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 one	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 repast	det
18	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 one	det
21	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	amod
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sang	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lasted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lasted	cc
25	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	parataxis
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 lasted	advmod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 usual	case
29	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 longer	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the three ladies			with the song; pleased property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	the three ladies not said here	Ladies = lady	then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
3	is a	past	the repast	a merry one			tree rules
4	last	past				long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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