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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 9

To satisfy his curiosity he went up to some splendidly dressed servants who stood at the door, and asked one of them the name of the master of the mansion.

Who acts: feasting, dressed servants · What happens: satisfy, go up, dress, stand, ask, name · To what, where: curiosity, door, one name, master

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feasting, dressed servants), 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

markadvclnmod:possobjnsubjcompound:prtcasedetadvmodamodoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccconjnummodcasenmoddetobjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootToPARTsatisfyVERBhisPRONcuriosityNOUNhePRONwentVERBupADPtoADPsomeDETsplendidlyADVdressedVERBservantsNOUNwhoPRONstoodVERBatADPtheDETdoorNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBoneNUMofADPthemPRONtheDETnameNOUNofADPtheDETmasterNOUNofADPtheDETmansionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoPART_2 satisfymark
2satisfysatisfyVERBVerbForm=Inf6 wentadvcl
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 curiositynmod:poss
4curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing2 satisfyobj
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 wentnsubj
6wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7upupADP_6 wentcompound:prt
8totoADP_12 servantscase
9somesomeDETPronType=Ind12 servantsdet
10splendidlysplendidlyADV_11 dressedadvmod
11dresseddressVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 servantsamod
12servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur6 wentobl
13whowhoPRONPronType=Rel14 stoodnsubj
14stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 servantsacl:relcl
15atatADP_17 doorcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 doordet
17doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing14 stoodobl
18,,PUNCT_20 askedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 askedcc
20askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 wentconj
21oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card25 namenummod
22ofofADP_23 themcase
23themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 onenmod
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 namedet
25namenameNOUNNumber=Sing20 askedobj
26ofofADP_28 mastercase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 masterdet
28mastermasterNOUNNumber=Sing25 namenmod
29ofofADP_31 mansioncase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 mansiondet
31mansionmansionNOUNNumber=Sing28 masternmod
32..PUNCT_6 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1satisfyto-infinitivefeasting not said herefeasting's curiosityvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer
2go uppastfeastingto some dressed servantsvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3dressparticiplesplendidly propertyvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4standpastsome dressed servantsthe doorvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5ask speech: askpastfeasting not said herethe one name of the master of the mansionvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
6namethe master of the mansionnom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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