The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 36

So they sat at breakfast till it was dinner-time, and Aladdin told his mother about the lamp.

Who acts: eyes, breakfast, Aladdin · What happens: sit, be, tell · To what, where: breakfast, mother · 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 (eyes, breakfast, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 breakfast	case
5	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
6	till	till	ADP	_	11 time	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 time	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 time	cop
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dinner	punct
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 lamp	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lamp	det
20	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	eyes = eye		breakfast			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at breakfast=Location
2	is	past	breakfast			till dinner time		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Aladdin	Aladdin's mother			about the lamp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about lamp=Topic

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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