The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 50

She soon returned saying that three Calenders, all blind in the right eye, and all with their heads, faces, and eyebrows clean shaved, begged for admittance, as they were newly arrived in Bagdad, and night had already fallen. "

Who acts: Sadie, eyebrows · What happens: return, say, clean, shave, beg, arrive · To what, where: eyebrows, Bagdad · 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 (Sadie, eyebrows), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 returned	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 returned	advmod
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 returned	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 blind	mark
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Calenders	nummod
7	Calenders	calender	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blind	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blind	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 blind	det
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saying	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 eye	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eye	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eye	amod
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blind	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 all	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 returned	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 heads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heads	nmod:poss
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 all	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 faces	punct
22	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 heads	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 clean	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 clean	cc
25	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clean	nsubj
26	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 all	conj
27	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 begged	mark
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
29	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 clean	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 admittance	case
31	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begged	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 arrived	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 arrived	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 arrived	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 arrived	aux:pass
36	newly	newly	ADV	_	37 arrived	advmod
37	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 begged	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 Bagdad	case
39	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 arrived	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fallen	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 fallen	cc
42	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fallen	obl:unmarked
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 fallen	aux
44	already	already	ADV	_	45 fallen	advmod
45	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 all	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Sadie				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Sadie not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	clean	present	eyebrows					tree rules
4	shave	participle						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	beg speech: request	participle	eyebrows not said here				for admittance	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for admittance=Topic
6	arrive	past · passive		eyebrows = eyebrow	Bagdad		newly property	tree rules
7	fall	past · perfect	Sadie not said here			night		vn occur-48.3 «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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