The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 86

All this time she had seemed unconscious of what she was doing, but now she raised her hand to her veil and uncovered her face. "

Who acts: princess · What happens: have, seem, do, raise, uncover · To what, where: time, unconscious, hand, veil, face

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	unconscious	unconscious	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 unconscious	nmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 raised	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 raised	cc
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 raised	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 raised	nsubj
17	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	parataxis
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 raised	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 veil	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 veil	nmod:poss
22	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 raised	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 uncovered	cc
24	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 raised	conj
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 face	nmod:poss
26	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 uncovered	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	princess	all time not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient
2	seem	past		unconscious		time	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unconscious=Attribute
3	do	past · progressive	princess				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	raise	past	princess	princess's hand	princess's veil	now	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to veil=Destination
5	uncover	past	princess not said here	princess's face			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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