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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 103

"I want a scented bath," he said, "a richly embroidered habit, a horse surpassing the Sultan's, and twenty slaves to attend me.

Who acts: Aladdin, horse · What happens: want, scent, say, embroider, surpass, attend · To what, where: scented bath, embroidered habit, Sultan, Aladdin · 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, horse), 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

punctnsubjccompdetamodobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctdetadvmodamodoblpunctdetconjacldetobjcasepunctccnummodconjmarkaclobjpunctroot"PUNCTIPRONwantVERBaDETscentedVERBbathNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTaDETrichlyADVembroideredVERBhabitNOUN,PUNCTaDEThorseNOUNsurpassingVERBtheDETSultanPROPN'sPART,PUNCTandCCONJtwentyNUMslavesNOUNtoPARTattendVERBmePRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 wantpunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 wantnsubj
3wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 saidccomp
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 bathdet
5scentedscentVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 bathamod
6bathbathNOUNNumber=Sing3 wantobj
7,,PUNCT_3 wantpunct
8""PUNCT_3 wantpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 saidnsubj
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11,,PUNCT_10 saidpunct
12""PUNCT_16 habitpunct
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 habitdet
14richlyrichlyADV_15 embroideredadvmod
15embroideredembroiderVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 habitamod
16habithabitNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidobl
17,,PUNCT_19 horsepunct
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 horsedet
19horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing16 habitconj
20surpassingsurpassVERBVerbForm=Ger19 horseacl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Sultandet
22SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing20 surpassingobj
23's'sPART_22 Sultancase
24,,PUNCT_27 slavespunct
25andandCCONJ_27 slavescc
26twentytwentyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 slavesnummod
27slavesslaveNOUNNumber=Plur16 habitconj
28totoPART_29 attendmark
29attendattendVERBVerbForm=Inf16 habitacl
30meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 attendobj
31..PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1want in a quotepresentAladdina scented bathvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bath=Theme
2scent in a quoteparticiplevn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpastAladdina embroidered habit and a horse and twenty slavesvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4embroider in a quoteparticiplerichly propertyvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5surpass in a quotegerunda horse not said herethe Sultanvn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sultan=Theme
6attend in a quoteto-infinitiveAladdin not said herea embroidered habit and a horse and twenty slaves not said hereAladdinvn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Goal

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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