The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 123

First of all I went to the stable to see my son, and he replied in his dumb way to all my caresses.

Who acts: I, son, my · What happens: go, see, reply, caress · To what, where: stable, son, dumb way

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, my), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 went	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 went	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stable	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stable	det
8	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 replied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 replied	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 replied	nsubj
16	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
19	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 replied	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 caresses	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 caresses	det:predet
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 caresses	nmod:poss
24	caresses	caress	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 way	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	I		the stable	of all; first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of all=Initial_Location to stable=Destination
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	my son			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	reply speech: assert	past	son		son's dumb way to my caresses		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	caress		my				nom caress «act transitive»: poss=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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