The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 24

Give me a light, and I will fetch them and see how they taste."

Who acts: you, I, olives · What happens: give, fetch, see, taste · To what, where: light, me, olives · 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 (you, I, olives), 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fetch	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fetch	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fetch	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fetch	aux
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fetch	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fetch	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 taste	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taste	nsubj
15	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a light	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient light=Theme
2	fetch	future	I	olives = olive		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	taste	present	olives = olive			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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.

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