The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 104

While she was telling me her story they seem to have carried the sick man to the top of the staircase and then left him there.

Who acts: servant, story · What happens: tell, seem, carry, leave · To what, where: story, me, sick man, top, hangman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, story), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 telling	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 telling	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 telling	aux
4	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 telling	iobj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 story	nmod:poss
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seem	nsubj
9	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 carried	mark
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 carried	aux
12	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 seem	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 top	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 top	det
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 staircase	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 staircase	det
21	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 top	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 left	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 left	advmod
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 carried	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	obj
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 left	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	servant	servant's story	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic
2	seem	present	story	servant's story not said here				tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive · perfect	story not said here	the sick man		the top of the staircase		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to top=Destination
4	leave	past	story not said here	hangman		there	then	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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