The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

The porter did as he was bid, but as he led the dog to Zobeida it uttered piercing howls, and gazed up at her with looks of entreaty.

Who acts: porter, Amina, whip · What happens: do, bid, lead, utter, pierce, gaze up · To what, where: Amina, dog, Zobeida, howls

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 (porter, Amina, whip), 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 porter	det
2	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 bid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bid	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bid	aux:pass
7	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 uttered	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 uttered	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 led	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 led	nsubj
12	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 uttered	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Zobeida	case
16	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 uttered	nsubj
18	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
19	piercing	pierce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 uttered	advcl
20	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 piercing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gazed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gazed	cc
23	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 gazed	compound:prt
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gazed	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 looks	case
28	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gazed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 entreaty	case
30	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looks	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the porter				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · passive		Amina			tree rules
3	lead	past	Amina	the dog	Zobeida		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme to zobeida=Destination
4	utter speech: other	past	whip				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	pierce	gerund	whip not said here	howls			vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent howl=Patient
6	gaze up	past				at porter; with looks of entreaty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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