The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 22
And now tell me what you have seen and done to-night."
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, see, do · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 seen | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 done | cc |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 seen | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | you not said here | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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