The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

Then she gave him to my steward, and told him to look after a calf she had bought.

Who acts: Sultana · What happens: give, tell, look, buy · To what, where: brother, calf · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sultana), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 steward	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 steward	nmod:poss
7	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 calf	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 calf	det
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bought	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bought	aux
19	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 calf	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Sultana		brother	then	to my steward	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to steward=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Sultana not said here		brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sultana not said here			after a calf		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	buy	past · perfect	Sultana	a calf not said here				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=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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