The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

The ladies were delighted at the idea, and Sadie went to see what she could find, returning in a few moments laden with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine.

Who acts: ladies, Sadie, few moments · What happens: be, go, see, find, return, laden · To what, where: idea · 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 (ladies, Sadie, few moments), 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 ladies	det
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 delighted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	cop
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 idea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delighted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delighted	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	xcomp
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 find	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 returning	punct
19	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 laden	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moments	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 moments	amod
23	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laden	nsubj
24	laden	laden	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 returning	advcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 kinds	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 kinds	nummod
27	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 kinds	amod
28	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 laden	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 flutes	case
30	flutes	flute	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kinds	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tambourine	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tambourine	det
33	tambourine	tambourine	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flutes	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ladies	the idea	delighted property	tree rules
2	go	past	Sadie			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	to-infinitive	Sadie not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find	could	Sadie			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	return	gerund	Sadie not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	laden	present	a few moments		with two different kinds of flutes and a tambourine	tree rules

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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