The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 21

He brought it home in a cage, and asked his wife to put it in her room, and take great care of it while he was away.

Who acts: man, gift · What happens: bring, ask, put, take, be, care · To what, where: gift, cage, wife, room, great care

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 (man, gift), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	2 brought	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cage	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cage	det
7	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 put	mark
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 room	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 room	nmod:poss
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 care	amod
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 care	nmod
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 away	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 away	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 away	cop
29	away	away	ADV	_	21 take	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	man	gift		a cage	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			man's wife			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3	put not said to happen	to-infinitive		gift		wife's room		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Destination
4	take	present		great care of gift				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	is	past	man				away property	tree rules
6	care		gift					nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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