The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
The lady soon stopped before a closed door, at which she knocked.
Who acts: lady, porter · What happens: stop, close, knock
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 (lady, porter), 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 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 stopped | advmod |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 door | amod |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knocked | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knocked | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knocked | nsubj |
| 13 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the lady | before a closed door | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | knock | past | porter | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at which=Patient |
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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