The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

We entered it, and found the trap-door which led to the staircase, but we had great difficulty in raising it, because the prince had fastened it down underneath with the plaster he had brought with him.

Who acts: We, trap door, great difficulty, prince · What happens: enter, find, lead, have, raise, fasten down · To what, where: tomb, trap door, great difficulty, prince, plaster

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, trap door, great difficulty, prince), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
8	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 trap	punct
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 led	nsubj
12	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 door	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 staircase	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 staircase	det
15	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	parataxis
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 difficulty	amod
21	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 raising	mark
23	raising	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 difficulty	acl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 raising	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fastened	punct
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 fastened	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fastened	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fastened	aux
30	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fastened	obj
32	down	down	ADP	_	30 fastened	compound:prt
33	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	30 fastened	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 plaster	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 plaster	det
36	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fastened	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 brought	aux
39	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 plaster	acl:relcl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 brought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	We	tomb		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
2	find	past	We not said here	the trap door		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
3	lead	past	the trap door		to the staircase	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to staircase=Patient
4	have	past	we	great difficulty		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
5	raise	gerund	great difficulty not said here	tomb		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	fasten down	past · perfect · passive		the prince	with the plaster; underneath property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=Result
7	bring	past · perfect	prince	the plaster not said here	with door	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plaster=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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