The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 48

He drew his horse's rein, and asked her who she was and what she was doing in this place, and if she needed help. "

Who acts: vizir, horse · What happens: draw, ask, be, do, need · To what, where: rein, horse, place, help · 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 (vizir, horse), 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 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horse	nmod:poss
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rein	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 horse	case
6	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 what	nsubj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 what	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 asked	ccomp
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 doing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 doing	aux
18	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 what	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 needed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 needed	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 needed	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 needed	nsubj
26	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
27	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	vizir	vizir's horse's rein			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	vizir not said here		horse		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is a	past					tree rules
4	do	past · progressive	horse			this place	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	need a condition, not said to happen	past	horse	help			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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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