The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 37

He went up to her and, imitating the voice of a woman, he said, "Do you happen to have a pair of scales you could lend me?

Who acts: door, you · What happens: go up, imitate, say, happen, have, lend · To what, where: sabre, voice, pair, scales, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 imitating	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 imitating	punct
8	imitating	imitate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 voice	det
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 imitating	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 voice	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 happen	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 happen	punct
19	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 happen	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 happen	nsubj
21	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 have	mark
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 happen	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 pair	det
25	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 scales	case
27	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pair	nmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 lend	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 lend	aux
30	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 scales	acl:relcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 lend	iobj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go up	past	door		sabre	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	imitate	gerund	door not said here	the voice of a woman		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	door			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen in a quote	present · do-support	you			tree rules
5	have in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a pair of scales		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
6	lend in a quote	could	you	scales not said here	door	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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