The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 9

They then turned to the porter to see if he could explain the mystery, but the porter was no wiser than they were themselves.

Who acts: Calenders, lord, porter · What happens: turn, see, explain, not be, be · To what, where: porter, mystery, Calenders

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 (Calenders, lord, porter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 porter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	advcl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 explain	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 explain	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 explain	aux
12	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mystery	det
14	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 explain	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wiser	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 wiser	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 porter	det
18	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wiser	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wiser	cop
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 wiser	advmod
21	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 turned	conj
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 themselves	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 themselves	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 themselves	cop
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 wiser	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Calenders = calender		the porter	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to porter=Trajectory
2	see	to-infinitive	Calenders = calender not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	explain speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	lord	the mystery				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=Topic
4	not is	past	the porter				wise property	tree rules
5	is a	past	Calenders = calender	Calenders = calender				tree rules

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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