The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 22

The next morning early, the grand-vizir went back to the house where they had seen the children playing, and asked for the mistress and her children.

Who acts: grand vizir, dealers, children · What happens: go back, see, play, ask · To what, where: children

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand vizir, dealers, 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl:unmarked
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 morning	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vizir	det
7	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vizir	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grand	punct
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 seen	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 house	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 seen	obj
21	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 children	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 mistress	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mistress	det
27	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 children	cc
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 children	nmod:poss
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 mistress	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the grand vizir		morning	to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	see	past · perfect	dealers = dealer	the children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
3	play	gerund	the children not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	the grand vizir not said here			for the mistress and vizir's children	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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