The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 92

Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that her sister Dinarzade should be sent for to speak to her.

Who acts: cost · What happens: go, prepare, beg, send, speak · To what, where: cost, sister · 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 (cost), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prepare	mark
5	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 prepare	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 marriage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marriage	det
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prepare	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 sent	mark
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj:pass
16	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sister	appos
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sent	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	aux:pass
19	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 begged	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	19 sent	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 speak	mark
22	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 speak	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	cost			then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prepare	to-infinitive	cost not said here	cost			for the marriage	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Product for marriage=Beneficiary
3	beg speech: request	past	cost not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	should · passive		cost's sister				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			cost			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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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