The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

She then took the chain from the porter, and, raising the dog on its hind legs, they looked into each other's eyes sorrowfully till tears began to fall from both.

Who acts: porter, dogs, tears · What happens: take, raise, look, begin, fall · To what, where: chain, porter, dog, hind legs, both

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, dogs, tears), 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 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chain	det
5	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 porter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 porter	det
8	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raising	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 raising	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raising	punct
12	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 raising	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 legs	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 legs	nmod:poss
17	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 raising	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looked	nsubj
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 eyes	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eyes	amod
25	's	's	PART	_	24 other	case
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
27	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	30 began	advmod
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 began	mark
29	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fall	mark
32	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 both	case
34	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	32 fall	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	porter	the chain	the porter	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme from porter=Initial_Location
2	raise	gerund	porter not said here	the dog	chain's hind legs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on leg=Destination
3	look	past	dogs = dog				into each other eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
4	begin	past	tears				sorrowfully property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fall	to-infinitive	tears not said here		both			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from both=Initial_Location

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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