The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 100

He hesitated no longer, but said: "Good woman, return and tell your son that I wait for him with open arms."

Who acts: Aladdin, Good woman · What happens: hesitate, say, return, tell, wait · To what, where: son, that · 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, Good woman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hesitated	nsubj
2	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 hesitated	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hesitated	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 woman	punct
10	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 return	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 return	punct
13	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 return	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	iobj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 wait	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wait	nsubj
20	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	ccomp
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wait	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 arms	case
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 arms	amod
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wait	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hesitated	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hesitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	Aladdin			long property	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Aladdin not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	return in a quote	infinitive	Good woman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Good woman not said here		your son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic
5	wait in a quote	present	Aladdin	that		for Aladdin; with open arms	tree rules

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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