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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 55

The grand-vizir fulfilled his commission, and hardly giving them time to change their dresses, desired the three sisters to follow him to the palace.

Who acts: grand vizir · What happens: fulfil, give, change, desire, follow · To what, where: commission, ladies, dresses, three sisters, vizir, palace

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grand vizir), 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

detamodpunctnsubjnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodadvcliobjobjmarkaclnmod:possobjpunctconjdetnummodobjmarkadvclobjcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETgrandADJ-PUNCTvizirNOUNfulfilledVERBhisPRONcommissionNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhardlyADVgivingVERBthemPRONtimeNOUNtoPARTchangeVERBtheirPRONdressesNOUN,PUNCTdesiredVERBtheDETthreeNUMsistersNOUNtoPARTfollowVERBhimPRONtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 vizirdet
2grandgrandADJDegree=Pos4 viziramod
3--PUNCT_2 grandpunct
4vizirvizirNOUNNumber=Sing5 fulfillednsubj
5fulfilledfulfilVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 commissionnmod:poss
7commissioncommissionNOUNNumber=Sing5 fulfilledobj
8,,PUNCT_19 desiredpunct
9andandCCONJ_19 desiredcc
10hardlyhardlyADV_11 givingadvmod
11givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 desiredadvcl
12themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 givingiobj
13timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing11 givingobj
14totoPART_15 changemark
15changechangeVERBVerbForm=Inf13 timeacl
16theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 dressesnmod:poss
17dressesdressNOUNNumber=Plur15 changeobj
18,,PUNCT_11 givingpunct
19desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 fulfilledconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 sistersdet
21threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card22 sistersnummod
22sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur19 desiredobj
23totoPART_24 followmark
24followfollowVERBVerbForm=Inf19 desiredadvcl
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 followobj
26totoADP_28 palacecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 palacedet
28palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 followobl
29..PUNCT_5 fulfilledpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fulfilpastthe grand vizirvizir's commissiontree rules
2givegerundladies = ladytimehardly propertyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3changeto-infinitiveladies's dressesvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
4desirepastthe grand vizir not said herethe three sistersvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sister=Theme
5followto-infinitivethe grand vizir not said herevizirthe palacevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Trajectory

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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