The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 23

He again put it down to enchantment, and this time the Sultan believed him, and sent thirty men on horseback to fetch Aladdin in chains.

Who acts: vizir, Sultan · What happens: put down, believe, send, fetch · To what, where: astonishment, vizir, thirty men, horseback, Aladdin, chains

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vizir, Sultan), 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	3 put	nsubj
2	again	again	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 enchantment	case
7	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 believed	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 believed	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sultan	det
13	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 believed	nsubj
14	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 believed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sent	cc
18	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
19	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 men	nummod
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sent	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 horseback	case
22	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fetch	mark
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sent	advcl
25	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 chains	case
27	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fetch	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put down	past	vizir	astonishment		again	to enchantment	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
2	believe	past	the Sultan	vizir		time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	send	past	vizir not said here	thirty men	horseback			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
4	fetch	to-infinitive	vizir not said here	Aladdin	chains			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aladdin=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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