The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 24

But our lucky star having guided us to this door, we took the liberty of knocking and of asking for shelter, which was given to us at once with the best grace in the world.

Who acts: we · What happens: guide, take, knock, ask, give · To what, where: lucky star, liberty, shelter, us

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 guided	cc
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 star	nmod:poss
3	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 star	amod
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guided	nsubj:pass
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 guided	aux
6	guided	guide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 guided	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 guided	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guided	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 liberty	det
15	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 knocking	case
17	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 liberty	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asking	cc
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 asking	mark
20	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 knocking	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 shelter	case
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 given	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux:pass
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 shelter	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 given	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 given	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 grace	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grace	det
33	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 grace	amod
34	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grace	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 guided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	guide	gerund · perfect · passive		our lucky star		to this door	tree rules
2	take	past	we	the liberty			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=Theme
3	knock	gerund					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	gerund				for shelter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give	past · passive		shelter	us	with the best grace in the world	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to we=Recipient at once=Asset

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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