The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 44

"To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for any instructions from the Indian, turned the peg as I had seen him do.

Who acts: father · What happens: please, mount, wait, turn, see · To what, where: father, horse, Indian, peg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	3 please	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 please	mark
3	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 turned	advcl
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 please	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	nsubj
8	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 please	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waiting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waiting	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waiting	punct
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 waiting	mark
15	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 mounted	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 instructions	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 instructions	det
18	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 waiting	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 Indian	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Indian	det
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 waiting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 peg	det
25	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 seen	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 turned	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	obj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux:pass
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	please in a quote	to-infinitive		my father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
2	mount in a quote	past	father	the horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	wait in a quote	gerund	father not said here		the Indian	for any instructions	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn in a quote	past		the peg			tree rules
5	see in a quote	past · do-support		father			tree rules

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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