The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 13

As none of the sofas could hold more than one person, they bade me place myself on the carpet, and to ask no questions about anything I should see.

Who acts: none, sofas, I · What happens: hold, bade, ask, see · To what, where: one person, me, carpet, questions

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, sofas, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	7 hold	mark
2	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 hold	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 sofas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sofas	det
5	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 none	nmod
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	advcl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 one	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 person	nummod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bade	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bade	nsubj
14	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 bade	obj
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bade	obj
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 place	nmod:unmarked
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 carpet	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 carpet	det
20	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bade	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 questions	det
26	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ask	obj
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 anything	case
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 questions	nmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 anything	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	could	none	one person			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme
2	bade	past	sofas = sofa	me	the carpet		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		no questions		about anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about anything=Topic
4	see	should	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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