The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 65

Aladdin waited patiently for nearly three months, but after two had elapsed his mother, going into the city to buy oil, found everyone rejoicing, and asked what was going on.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: wait, elapse, go, buy, find, rejoice · To what, where: mother, city, oil, everyone · 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	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	2 waited	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 months	case
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 three	advmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waited	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 elapsed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 elapsed	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 two	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 elapsed	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 elapsed	aux
13	elapsed	elapse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 waited	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 elapsed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 elapsed	advcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 city	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 city	det
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 buy	mark
22	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	advcl
23	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buy	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	25 found	obj
27	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 everyone	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 waited	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 going	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 going	aux
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 asked	ccomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 going	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Aladdin			month	patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	elapse	past · perfect	Aladdin not said here	Aladdin's mother		after two		tree rules
3	go	gerund	Aladdin not said here		the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location
4	buy	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here	oil				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Theme
5	find	past	Aladdin not said here	everyone				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Topic
6	rejoice	gerund						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	ask speech: ask	past	Aladdin not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	go on	past · progressive						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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