The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 1

At the word treasure, Aladdin forgot his fears, and grasped the ring as he was told, saying the names of his father and grandfather.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: forget, grasp, tell, say, fear, name · To what, where: fears, word treasure, ring, Aladdin, names, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 treasure	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 treasure	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 treasure	compound
4	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 treasure	punct
6	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fears	nmod:poss
9	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forgot	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grasped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grasped	cc
12	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgot	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grasped	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 grasped	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 told	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 names	det
22	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saying	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 names	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grandfather	cc
27	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 father	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	forget	past	Aladdin	Aladdin's fears	the word treasure	tree rules
2	grasp	past	Aladdin not said here	the ring		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Aladdin		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	gerund		the names of Aladdin's father and grandfather		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
5	fear		Aladdin			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	name			Aladdin's father and grandfather		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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