The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 34

I took him home, to amuse my wife, and she invited him to supper.

Who acts: I, wife, hunchback · What happens: take, amuse, invite, supper · To what, where: hunchback, wife

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, hunchback), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	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 took	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 amuse	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 amuse	mark
7	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 amuse	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 invited	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 invited	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invited	nsubj
13	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 invited	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 supper	mark
16	supper	supper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 invited	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	I		hunchback	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	amuse	to-infinitive		my wife			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer
3	invite	past	wife	hunchback			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	supper not said to happen	to-infinitive	hunchback not said here				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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