The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 154

I made him come into my house, and asked him how he had fared in his enterprise.

Who acts: I, beggar · What happens: make, come, ask, fare · To what, where: beggar, house, enterprise

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, beggar), 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fared	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fared	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fared	aux
15	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 enterprise	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 enterprise	nmod:poss
18	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fared	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	I	beggar			tree rules
2	come	infinitive	beggar not said here			my house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past			beggar		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	fare	past · perfect	beggar			beggar's enterprise	tree rules

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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