The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 112

When we reached the bottom of the stairs we stepped into a sort of ante-room, filled with such a dense smoke that it was hardly possible to see anything.

Who acts: we, it · What happens: reach, step, fill, be, see, sort · To what, where: bottom, sort, ante room, anything

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, it), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stepped	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stairs	det
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bottom	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 stepped	nsubj
10	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sort	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sort	det
13	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stepped	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 room	case
15	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 room	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ante	punct
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sort	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 filled	punct
19	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 room	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 smoke	case
21	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 smoke	det:predet
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 smoke	det
23	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	amod
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 filled	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 possible	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 possible	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 possible	cop
28	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	29 possible	advmod
29	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 smoke	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 possible	csubj
32	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	we	the bottom of the stairs			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme
2	step	past	we		a sort of ante room		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sort=Destination
3	fill	participle		ante room not said here		with such dense smoke	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with smoke=Instrument
4	is	past	it			hardly, possible property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive		anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
6	sort			ante room			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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