The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 25

"Does he want to take my son from me?" cried the poor woman; but the grand-vizir hastened to calm her, by assuring her that she should have the boy again in an hour, and she would be quite satisfied when she knew the reason of the summons.

Who acts: game, poor woman, grand vizir, vizir · What happens: want, take, cry, hasten, calm, assure · To what, where: son, vizir, boy, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (game, poor woman, grand vizir, vizir), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
2	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cried	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 hastened	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 hastened	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vizir	det
20	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 vizir	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grand	punct
22	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hastened	nsubj
23	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cried	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 calm	mark
25	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hastened	advcl
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 calm	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 assuring	punct
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 assuring	mark
29	assuring	assure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 assuring	obj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 assuring	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 boy	det
36	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	again	again	ADV	_	34 have	advmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 hour	case
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hour	det
40	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 satisfied	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 satisfied	cc
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 satisfied	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 satisfied	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 satisfied	cop
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	47 satisfied	advmod
47	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cried	parataxis
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 knew	advmod
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 knew	nsubj
50	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 satisfied	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 reason	det
52	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 knew	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 summons	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 summons	det
55	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 reason	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present · do-support	game					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	game not said here	my son			from the poor woman = woman	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent son=Theme from i=Initial_Location
3	cry speech: express	past	the poor woman					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hasten	participle	the grand vizir					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	calm	to-infinitive	the grand vizir not said here	vizir				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
6	assure	gerund	the poor woman not said here		vizir			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	have	should	vizir	the boy		again; hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
8	is	would	vizir				satisfied property	tree rules
9	know	past	vizir	the reason of the summons				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=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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