The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 36

Young men once made a noise at Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead of night, and asked him to tell them one of his marvellous tales.

Who acts: Young men, Galland · What happens: make, ask, tell · To what, where: noise, windows, Galland, one, Man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Young men, Galland), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 noise	det
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 windows	case
8	Monsieur	Monsieur	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Galland	compound
9	Galland	Galland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 windows	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Galland	case
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 dead	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dead	det
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 windows	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 night	case
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 asked	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 tell	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 tales	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tales	nmod:poss
27	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tales	amod
28	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 one	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	Young men	a noise		Monsieur Galland's windows in the dead	once property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
2	ask speech: ask	past	Young men not said here		Galland			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Young men not said here	one of Galland's marvellous tales	Man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient one=Topic
4	tell		Galland					nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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