The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 10

The tailor noticed my confusion, and was just going to inquire the reason when the door of the room opened, and the old man appeared, carrying with him my hatchet and shoes.

Who acts: tailor, door, old man, my · What happens: notice, go, inquire, open, appear, carry · To what, where: confusion, reason, hatchet

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, door, old man, my), 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 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 confusion	nmod:poss
5	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 going	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 noticed	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 inquire	mark
12	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reason	det
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 inquire	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 opened	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opened	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	nmod
21	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 inquire	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 appeared	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	nsubj
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carrying	punct
29	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 appeared	advcl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carrying	obl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hatchet	nmod:poss
33	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrying	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shoes	cc
35	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hatchet	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	notice	past	the tailor	my confusion		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer confusion=Stimulus
2	go	past · progressive	the tailor not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	the tailor not said here	the reason		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
4	open	past	the door of the room			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	the old man			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	carry	gerund	the old man not said here	my hatchet and shoes	with man	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
7	confuse		my			nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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