The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 11

I knocked, and desired the servant to beg her master to come down as fast as possible and see a sick man whom we had brought for him to cure; and in order to hasten his movements I placed a piece of money in her hand as the doctor's fee.

Who acts: I, master, man · What happens: knock, desire, beg, come down, see, bring · To what, where: servant, master, sick man, movements, piece, hand

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master, man), 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 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 desired	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 desired	cc
5	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desired	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 beg	mark
9	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 desired	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beg	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 beg	xcomp
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 fast	advmod
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 come	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 possible	mark
18	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fast	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 brought	nsubj:pass
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 brought	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 man	acl:relcl
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 cure	mark
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cure	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 cure	mark
31	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 brought	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 hasten	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hasten	cc
34	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 hasten	mark
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 in	fixed
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hasten	mark
37	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 movements	nmod:poss
39	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hasten	obj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 placed	nsubj
41	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knocked	conj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 piece	det
43	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 placed	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 money	case
45	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 piece	nmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 hand	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 hand	nmod:poss
48	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 placed	obl
49	as	as	ADP	_	53 fee	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 doctor	det
51	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fee	nmod:poss
52	's	's	PART	_	51 doctor	case
53	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 placed	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	past	I				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	desire	past	I not said here	the servant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	I not said here	tailor's master			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come down not said to happen	to-infinitive	tailor's master not said here			down, fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	infinitive	tailor's master not said here	a sick man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
6	bring	past · perfect · passive		a sick man			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
7	cure	to-infinitive	man				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer
8	hasten	to-infinitive	I not said here	man's movements			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent movement=Patient
9	place	past	I	a piece of money	tailor's hand	as the doctor's fee	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Destination
10	move		man				nom movement «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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