The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle.

Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: go away, tell, turn, throw down, take, leave · To what, where: slave, hand mill, cage, water, mirror, light · 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 (husband, wife), 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	_	5 went	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 husband	advmod
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	advcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 slave	case
14	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 turn	mark
16	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
17	under	under	ADP	_	21 cage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cage	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 bird	case
21	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mill	det
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mill	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hand	punct
25	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 another	punct
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 told	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 throw	mark
29	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throw	obj
31	down	down	ADP	_	29 throw	compound:prt
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 cage	case
33	above	above	ADP	_	35 cage	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cage	det
35	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 throw	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 third	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 third	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 third	det
39	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 third	acl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 mirror	det
43	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 take	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 turn	cc
45	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 take	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 turn	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 front	case
48	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 turn	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 eyes	case
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eyes	nmod:poss
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 front	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 left	punct
53	from	from	SCONJ	_	54 left	mark
54	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 take	advcl
55	to	to	ADP	_	59 light	case
56	right	right	ADV	_	59 light	advmod
57	by	by	ADP	_	59 light	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 light	det
59	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 left	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 candle	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 candle	det
62	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 light	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	wife's husband			day	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	wife		slave			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive		a hand mill	the bird's cage			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=Theme
4	throw down not said to happen	to-infinitive		water	the cage			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from cage=Initial_Location
5	take	to-infinitive	wife not said here	a mirror				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme
6	turn	present	wife not said here	mirror			in front of front's eyes	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in front=Topic
7	leave	participle	wife not said here		the light of a candle			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to light=Initial_Location
8	light			a candle				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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