The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 87

As soon as they were gone the prince returned to the cottage to bid farewell to his old friend, and to thank him once more for all his kindness.

What happens: go, return, bid, thank · To what, where: sailors, farewell, gardener

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 returned	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux:pass
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 returned	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obj
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cottage	det
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returned	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bid	mark
14	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 returned	advcl
15	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bid	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 friend	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friend	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 friend	amod
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bid	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thank	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thank	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 thank	mark
23	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bid	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thank	obj
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 more	advmod
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 thank	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 kindness	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 kindness	det:predet
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kindness	nmod:poss
30	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thank	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · passive	sailors = sailor			tree rules
2	return	past			to the cottage result; soon property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cottage=Result
3	bid	to-infinitive	farewell		to gardener's old friend	tree rules
4	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive		gardener	for gardener's kindness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute

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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