The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 68
In the midst of all their noise, a knock was heard at the door.
Who acts: singers · What happens: hear, noise · To what, where: knock, midst
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 (singers), 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 | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 noise | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 noise | det:predet |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 noise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midst | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 knock | det |
| 10 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a knock | the midst of singers's noise | at the door | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | noise | singers = singer | nom noise «event 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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