The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 49
In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard a knock at the outer door, which Sadie rose to open.
Who acts: tapers, Sadie · What happens: enjoy, hear, rise, open · To what, where: tapers, fact, knock, outer door
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 (tapers, Sadie), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enjoying | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 enjoying | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enjoying | aux |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 enjoying | advmod |
| 7 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 enjoying | obj |
| 9 | mightily | mightily | ADV | _ | 7 enjoying | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 heard | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enjoying | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 knock | det |
| 14 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 rose | obj |
| 21 | Sadie | Sadie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 door | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 open | mark |
| 24 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rose | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enjoying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past · progressive | tapers = taper | tapers = taper | fact | all, mightily property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | hear | past | tapers = taper | a knock | the outer door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | rise | past | Sadie | the outer door | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | Sadie not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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