The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 108

So saying he led the prince into his cottage, and after satisfying his hunger begged to learn the cause of his arrival.

Who acts: gardener · What happens: say, lead, satisfy, beg, learn, hunger · To what, where: prince, cottage, hunger, cause, arrival · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener), 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	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 led	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 cottage	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cottage	nmod:poss
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 satisfying	mark
13	satisfying	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 begged	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hunger	nmod:poss
15	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 satisfying	obj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 learn	mark
18	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cause	det
20	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 learn	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 arrival	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arrival	nmod:poss
23	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cause	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	gardener not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lead	past	gardener	the prince	gardener's cottage	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into cottage=Destination
3	satisfy	gerund		gardener's hunger		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
4	beg speech: request	past	gardener not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	gardener not said here	the cause of gardener's arrival		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
6	hunger		gardener			nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent
7	cause			gardener's arrival		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
8	arrive		gardener			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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