The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 67

I fell into the hands of a rich merchant, who took me home with him, and clothed and fed me well, and after some days sent for me and questioned me as to what I could do.

Who acts: I, rich merchant · What happens: fall, take, clothe, feed, send, question · To what, where: hands, me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rich merchant), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hands	det
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fell	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 merchant	amod
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hands	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 merchant	acl:relcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 took	iobj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clothed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 clothed	cc
19	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fed	cc
21	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clothed	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fed	obj
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 fed	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sent	cc
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 days	det
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sent	obl
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	parataxis
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sent	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 questioned	cc
33	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	conj
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 questioned	obj
35	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	37 what	case
36	to	to	ADP	_	35 as	fixed
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 questioned	obl
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 do	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 what	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	I			into the hands of a rich merchant result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
2	take	past	a rich merchant	me		with island; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	clothe	past	I not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feed	past	I not said here	me		well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	send	participle			day	for me	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	question speech: other	past		me			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Recipient as what=Attribute
7	do	could	I				vn act-114-1 «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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