The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 113

However, we passed through the smoke into a large chamber, which at first seemed quite empty.

Who acts: we · What happens: pass, seem · To what, where: smoke, large chamber

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), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 smoke	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 smoke	det
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 chamber	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chamber	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chamber	amod
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 first	case
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 seemed	obl
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chamber	acl:relcl
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 empty	advmod
18	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seemed	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	we			the smoke		into a large chamber; however property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through smoke=Initial_Location into chamber=Destination
2	seem	past		a large chamber				empty property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute

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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