The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 16

Noureddin and the Persian said that when the fishes were properly cooked and dressed they would gladly eat of them.

Who acts: Noureddin, fish · What happens: say, cook, dress, eat · To what, where: fishes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin, fish), 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	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Persian	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Persian	det
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	_	1 Noureddin	conj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 cooked	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cooked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fishes	det
9	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cooked	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cooked	aux:pass
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	12 cooked	advmod
12	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dressed	cc
14	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cooked	conj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	18 eat	advmod
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dressed	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Noureddin and the Persian			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cook	past · passive		the fishes	properly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	dress	participle				tree rules
4	eat	would	fish		of friends = friend; gladly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source

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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