The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 93

There once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself.

Who acts: poor tailor, careless idle boy · What happens: live, have, call, do, play · To what, where: poor tailor, son, nothing, streets · 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 (poor tailor, careless idle boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tailor	amod
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tailor	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 son	acl
13	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
16	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 careless	punct
18	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 son	appos
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 do	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 boy	acl:relcl
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 do	obj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 play	cc
25	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 play	obl:unmarked
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 play	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 streets	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 streets	det
31	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 play	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 boys	case
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boys	amod
34	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 boys	amod
35	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 streets	nmod
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 boys	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor tailor	there		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location
2	have	past	a poor tailor	a son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	call	participle		a son not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	would	a careless idle boy	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	play	present			the streets with little idle boys like boy	day	long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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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