The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 15

But how different she looked from what she was when I had last seen her, for she was lying stretched on the ground covered with blood, and weeping bitterly.

Who acts: princess · What happens: look, see, stretch, cover, weep · To what, where: princess, ground

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 (princess), 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	_	5 looked	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 different	advmod
3	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looked	xcomp
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 looked	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux:pass
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 seen	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	last	last	ADV	_	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 what	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stretched	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 stretched	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stretched	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stretched	aux:pass
20	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 stretched	aux:pass
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 looked	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretched	obl
25	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ground	acl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 blood	case
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 covered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 weeping	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 weeping	cc
30	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stretched	advcl
31	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	30 weeping	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	princess			different property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from what=Theme
2	see	past · perfect · passive		princess		last property	tree rules
3	stretch	past · passive		princess	the ground		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	cover	participle		the ground not said here		with blood	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme
5	weep	gerund				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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