The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 37

"Get a light," he called to the servant, "and follow me as fast as you can!" and rushing out of his room he ran towards the staircase.

Who acts: servant, doctor, you · What happens: get, call, follow, rush out, run · To what, where: light, servant, couple, room, staircase · 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, doctor, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
2	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Get	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 servant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 servant	det
11	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 follow	cc
15	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Get	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 follow	obj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 follow	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 can	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 can	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fast	advcl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rushing	cc
25	rushing	rush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Get	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 room	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 room	nmod:poss
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rushing	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ran	nsubj
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 room	acl:relcl
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 staircase	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 staircase	det
34	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	imperative	the servant = servant not said here	a light				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	call speech: assert	past	doctor		the servant			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient
3	follow in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	couple			fast property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	rush out	gerund	you not said here	doctor's room				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory
5	run	past	doctor	doctor's room not said here		the staircase		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent room=Theme towards staircase=Trajectory

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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