The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 89

"What have you been doing?" they asked, "and did the gardener come to tell you he had found a treasure?"

Who acts: you, cucumbers, gardener · What happens: do, ask, come, tell, find · To what, where: you, treasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cucumbers, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 asked	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gardener	det
16	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	nsubj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 come	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 tell	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 treasure	det
25	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	cucumbers = cucumber			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	past · do-support	the gardener			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the gardener not said here		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	find in a quote	past · perfect	gardener	a treasure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic

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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