The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 87

On hearing the cause of these loud wails the lady turned to her attendant and said to him, "Give him whatever you have got with you."

Who acts: lady, man · What happens: hear, wail, turn, say, give, get · To what, where: cause, attendant, man, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lady, 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 hearing	mark
2	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wails	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hearing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 loud	case
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 loud	nsubj
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	nmod
8	wails	wail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wails	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 attendant	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 attendant	nmod:poss
14	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Give	punct
21	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 Give	iobj
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 got	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 Give	parataxis
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 got	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wails	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wails	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		the cause of loud				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus
2	wail	present						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn	past	the lady			lady's attendant		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to attendant=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	the lady not said here		man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give in a quote	infinitive			man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	get in a quote	present · perfect	man	whatever			with man	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus

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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