The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 79

So I fetched the water as he asked, and washed and rubbed him, after which he lay down again and slept a little.

Who acts: I, father · What happens: fetch, ask, wash, rub, lie down, sleep · To what, where: water, father, little

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 fetched	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 asked	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 washed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 washed	cc
11	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rubbed	cc
13	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rubbed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lay	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 washed	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 lay	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 lay	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slept	cc
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lay	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 slept	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	I	the water				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	father					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wash	past	I not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rub	past	I not said here		father			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination
5	lie down	past	father			again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	past	father not said here	a little				vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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