The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

When he opened his eyes for the second time, he begged me to bring him a melon and some sugar, that he might eat and refresh himself.

Who acts: father · What happens: open, beg, bring, eat, refresh · To what, where: eyes, me, melon, father

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 opened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begged	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 begged	nsubj
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 begged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bring	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 melon	det
18	melon	melon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sugar	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 sugar	det
21	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 melon	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eat	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 eat	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eat	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 eat	aux
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bring	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 refresh	cc
28	refresh	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 eat	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 refresh	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	open	past	father	father's eyes		time	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	father		me		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	a melon and some sugar	father		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination melon=Theme
4	eat	might	father				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	refresh	infinitive	father not said here	father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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