The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 42

So he had her shut in one set of rooms in one of her palaces, and only allowed her ten old women, of whom her nurse was the head, to wait on her and keep her company.

Who acts: China, nurse · What happens: have, allow, be, wait, keep · To what, where: Fatima, one set, ten old women, head, company

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 (China, nurse), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 set	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 set	nummod
8	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rooms	case
10	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 rooms	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 palaces	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 palaces	nmod:poss
15	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 allowed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 allowed	cc
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 allowed	advmod
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 wait	advcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 allowed	iobj
21	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 women	nummod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 women	amod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 allowed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 whom	punct
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 whom	case
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 allowed	obl
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nurse	nmod:poss
28	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 head	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 head	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 head	det
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whom	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wait	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 wait	mark
34	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wait	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 keep	cc
38	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 wait	conj
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 company	nmod:poss
40	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 keep	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	China	Fatima		one set of rooms in one of Fatima's palaces	shut property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	allow	past		ten old women	Fatima			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal woman=Theme
3	is a	past	Fatima's nurse	the head				tree rules
4	wait	to-infinitive					on Fatima	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location
5	keep	infinitive		Fatima's company				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=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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