The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 103

The boy's words recalled to the Caliph the petition he had read that morning, and he waited with interest to see what the children would do.

Who acts: words, boy, children · What happens: recall, read, wait, see, do, word · To what, where: petition, Caliph, morning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, boy, children), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waited	nsubj
5	recalled	recall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 words	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Caliph	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Caliph	det
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 recalled	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 petition	det
10	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recalled	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 read	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 read	aux
13	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 petition	acl:relcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 morning	mark
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 read	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waited	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 waited	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 waited	nsubj
19	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 interest	case
21	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waited	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 waited	advcl
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 children	det
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 see	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	recall	participle	the boy's words not said here	the petition	the Caliph		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to caliph=Destination
2	read	past · perfect	boy	morning			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Topic
3	wait	past	the boy's words			with interest	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the boy's words not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	would	the children				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	word		the boy				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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