The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 27

The intendant was careful to bring them up as befitted their real rank, and soon appointed a tutor to teach the young princes how to read and write.

Who acts: intendant · What happens: be, bring up, befit, appoint, teach, read · To what, where: children, real rank, tutor, young princes

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 (intendant), 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 intendant	det
2	intendant	intendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 careful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 careful	cop
4	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bring	mark
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 careful	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 bring	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 befitted	advmod
10	befitted	befit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bring	advcl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rank	nmod:poss
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rank	amod
13	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 befitted	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 appointed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 appointed	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 appointed	advmod
17	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 careful	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tutor	det
19	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 appointed	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 teach	mark
21	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 appointed	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 princes	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 princes	amod
24	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 teach	obj
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 read	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 read	mark
27	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 teach	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 write	cc
29	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 read	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the intendant			careful property	tree rules
2	bring up	to-infinitive	the intendant not said here	children = child			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	befit	participle	the intendant not said here	children's real rank			tree rules
4	appoint	past		a tutor		soon property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tutor=Theme
5	teach speech: other	to-infinitive			the young princes		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
6	read	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	write	infinitive					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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