The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 114

The room was brilliantly lighted, and in another moment we perceived a sort of platform at one end, on which were the bodies of the prince and a lady, both half-burned, as if they had been dragged out of a fire before it had quite consumed them.

Who acts: we · What happens: light, perceive, be, burn, drag out, consume · To what, where: room, sort, one end, bodies, both, sorts

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 room	det
2	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	aux:pass
4	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	5 lighted	advmod
5	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceived	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceived	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obl
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 perceived	nsubj
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lighted	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 platform	case
16	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 end	nummod
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceived	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bodies	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 bodies	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 bodies	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bodies	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bodies	det
25	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 perceived	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 prince	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bodies	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lady	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lady	det
31	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prince	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 burned	punct
33	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	36 burned	nsubj:pass
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	36 burned	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 half	punct
36	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 perceived	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dragged	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 dragged	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 dragged	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 dragged	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dragged	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 dragged	aux:pass
43	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 burned	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 fire	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 fire	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fire	det
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dragged	obl
48	before	before	SCONJ	_	52 consumed	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 consumed	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 consumed	aux
51	quite	quite	ADV	_	52 consumed	advmod
52	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 dragged	advcl
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 consumed	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	past · passive		the room			brilliantly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	perceive	past	we	a sort of platform		at one end; moment		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
3	is	past			the bodies		of the prince and a lady	tree rules
4	burn	participle · passive		both				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
5	drag out a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		sorts = sort	a fire			tree rules
6	consume	past · perfect · passive		room				tree rules
7	sort			platform				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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