The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 2
The gardener did as he was bid, and soon placed the cradle in the hands of the intendant.
Who acts: gardener · What happens: do, bid, place · To what, where: gardener, cradle, hands
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 (gardener), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 placed | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 placed | advmod |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cradle | det |
| 13 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hands | det |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 intendant | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 intendant | det |
| 19 | intendant | intendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hands | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the gardener | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | gardener | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | place | past | the gardener not said here | the cradle | the hands of the intendant | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cradle=Theme in hand=Destination |
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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