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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 14

When he touched the ground, he rapped it with his foot; it opened, and we found ourselves in the enchanted palace, in the presence of the beautiful princess of the Ebony Isle.

Who acts: hatchet, ground, we · What happens: touch, rap, open, find, enchant · To what, where: ground, ourselves, enchanted palace

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 (hatchet, ground, 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

advmodnsubjadvcldetobjpunctnsubjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjparataxispunctccnsubjconjobjcasedetamodoblpunctcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodcasedetcompoundnmodpunctrootWhenADVhePRONtouchedVERBtheDETgroundNOUN,PUNCThePRONrappedVERBitPRONwithADPhisPRONfootNOUN;PUNCTitPRONopenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJwePRONfoundVERBourselvesPRONinADPtheDETenchantedVERBpalaceNOUN,PUNCTinADPtheDETpresenceNOUNofADPtheDETbeautifulADJprincessNOUNofADPtheDETEbonyPROPNIslePROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 touchedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 touchednsubj
3touchedtouchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 rappedadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 grounddet
5groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing3 touchedobj
6,,PUNCT_3 touchedpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 rappednsubj
8rappedrapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 rappedobj
10withwithADP_12 footcase
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 footnmod:poss
12footfootNOUNNumber=Sing8 rappedobl
13;;PUNCT_15 openedpunct
14ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 openednsubj
15openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 rappedparataxis
16,,PUNCT_19 foundpunct
17andandCCONJ_19 foundcc
18wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs19 foundnsubj
19foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 openedconj
20ourselvesourselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes19 foundobj
21ininADP_24 palacecase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 palacedet
23enchantedenchantVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 palaceamod
24palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 foundobl
25,,PUNCT_28 presencepunct
26ininADP_28 presencecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 presencedet
28presencepresenceNOUNNumber=Sing19 foundobl
29ofofADP_32 princesscase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 princessdet
31beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos32 princessamod
32princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing28 presencenmod
33ofofADP_36 Islecase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 Isledet
35EbonyEbonyPROPNNumber=Sing36 Islecompound
36IsleIslePROPNNumber=Sing32 princessnmod
37..PUNCT_8 rappedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1touchpasthatchetthe groundvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
2rappasthatchetgroundwith hatchet's footvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument
3openpastgroundvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4findpastweourselvesthe enchanted palacein the presence of the beautiful princess of the Ebony Islevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Topic
5enchantparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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