The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
She next went over to the door of a closet and signed to the porter to follow her.
Who acts: seat · What happens: go over, sign, follow · To what, where: porter, seat
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 (seat), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 closet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 closet | det |
| 10 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 signed | cc |
| 12 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 porter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 porter | det |
| 15 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signed | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 signed | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 follow | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | past | seat | to the door of a closet; next, over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sign | participle | seat not said here | the porter | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to porter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | seat not said here | seat | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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