The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 126

When they reached the lake the genius said to the fisherman, "Throw your nets and catch fish."

Who acts: misgivings, genius · What happens: reach, say, throw, catch · To what, where: lake, fisherman, nets, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misgivings, genius), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 fisherman	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fisherman	det
11	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Throw	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Throw	punct
14	Throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nets	nmod:poss
16	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 Throw	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 catch	cc
18	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Throw	conj
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catch	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Throw	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reach	past	misgivings = misgiving	the lake		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the genius		the fisherman	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fisherman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	throw in a quote	infinitive		your nets		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
4	catch in a quote	present		fish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme

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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