The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 1
"Go," he said to a gardener who was working near, "and get that cradle out for me."
Who acts: he · What happens: go, say, work, get out · To what, where: cradle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 gardener | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gardener | det |
| 9 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 working | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 working | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 working | aux |
| 12 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 working | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 working | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 working | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 cradle | det |
| 19 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 get | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | work | past · progressive | to a gardener; near property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get out in a quote | infinitive | he not said here | that cradle | for me | tree rules |
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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