The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 37

For three days he wandered about like a madman, asking everyone what had become of his palace, but they only laughed and pitied him.

Who acts: Aladdin, people · What happens: wander, ask, become, laugh, pity · To what, where: everyone, Aladdin

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 (Aladdin, people), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 madman	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 madman	det
9	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asking	punct
11	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wandered	advcl
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 asking	obj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 become	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 become	aux
15	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 everyone	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 palace	nmod:poss
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laughed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 laughed	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughed	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 laughed	advmod
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pitied	cc
25	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughed	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pitied	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Aladdin			day	like a madman; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	Aladdin not said here		everyone			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	become	past · perfect					of Aladdin's palace	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	laugh	past	people					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pity	past	people not said here	Aladdin				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/32/37/