The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 23

On his return he asked the parrot what had happened during his absence, and the parrot told him some things which made him scold his wife.

Who acts: man, parrot, things · What happens: ask, happen, tell, make, scold, return · To what, where: parrot, return, things, man, wife · 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 (man, parrot, things), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 parrot	det
7	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 parrot	acl:relcl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 absence	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 absence	nmod:poss
13	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parrot	det
17	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asked	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 things	det
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 things	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wife	nmod:poss
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 scold	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man		the parrot	man's return		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parrot=Recipient
2	happen	past · perfect	the parrot				during man's absence	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the parrot	some things	man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic
4	make	past	some things	man				tree rules
5	scold	infinitive	man not said here	man's wife				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
6	return		man					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	absent		man					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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