The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 94

The chief of police, who was present to see that everything was in order, put several questions to the purveyor, who told him the whole story of the death of the hunchback, and how he had carried the body to the place where it had been found by the Christian merchant.

Who acts: police, chief, order, purveyor, Christian merchant, hunchback · What happens: be, see, put, tell, carry, find · To what, where: everything, order, several questions, whole story, purveyor, body · 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 (police, chief, order, purveyor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 order	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 police	case
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chief	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 present	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 present	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 present	cop
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 police	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 present	advcl
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 everything	det
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 see	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 order	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 order	case
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 order	acl
18	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 questions	amod
19	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 put	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 purveyor	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 purveyor	det
22	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 purveyor	acl:relcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 story	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 story	amod
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 death	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 death	det
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 story	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 hunchback	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hunchback	det
35	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 death	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 carried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 carried	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 carried	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 carried	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 carried	aux
41	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 told	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 body	det
43	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carried	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 place	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 place	det
46	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carried	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 found	advmod
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 found	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 found	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 found	aux:pass
51	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 place	acl:relcl
52	by	by	ADP	_	55 merchant	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 merchant	det
54	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 merchant	amod
55	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 found	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	police				present property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	police not said here	everything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	is	past	the chief of police			order		tree rules
4	put	infinitive	order not said here	several questions			to the purveyor	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal
5	tell speech: assert	past	the purveyor	the whole story of the death of the hunchback	purveyor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
6	carry	past · perfect	purveyor	the body		the place		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to place=Destination
7	find	past · perfect · passive	the Christian merchant	chief				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
8	die		the hunchback					nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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