The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 28

At last some storyteller thought of writing down the tales, and fixing them into a kind of framework, as if they had all been narrated to a cruel Sultan by his wife.

Who acts: last storyteller, wife · What happens: think, fix, narrate · To what, where: Caliph, cruel Sultan

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last storyteller, wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storyteller	amod
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 storyteller	det
4	storyteller	storyteller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 writing	case
7	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obl
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 tales	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tales	det
10	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fixing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fixing	cc
13	fixing	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 thought	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fixing	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 kind	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 kind	det
17	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fixing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 framework	case
19	framework	framework	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kind	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 narrated	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 narrated	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 narrated	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 narrated	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 narrated	aux
25	all	all	ADV	_	27 narrated	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 narrated	aux:pass
27	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thought	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 Sultan	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Sultan	det
30	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Sultan	amod
31	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 narrated	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 wife	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wife	nmod:poss
34	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 narrated	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	some last storyteller			of writing; down the tales	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fix	gerund	some last storyteller not said here	Caliph		into a kind of framework	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into kind=Co-Patient
3	narrate speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	storyteller's wife	Caliph	a cruel Sultan	all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to sultan=Recipient

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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