The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

After a little while the old man rose and brought in supper, which I ate heartily, for I was very hungry.

Who acts: old man, I · What happens: rise, bring, eat, be · To what, where: supper

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 (old man, 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rose	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 rose	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 supper	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ate	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ate	nsubj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 supper	acl:relcl
17	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	16 ate	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hungry	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 hungry	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hungry	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hungry	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 hungry	advmod
23	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ate	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the old man			after a little		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	past	the old man not said here		supper			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	I	supper			heartily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	is	past	I				hungry property	tree rules

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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