The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 117

The queen at once went out and took a cup of water, and said over it some words that made it boil as if it were on the fire.

Who acts: queen, words, cup · What happens: go out, take, say, make, boil, be · To what, where: cup, words, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, words, cup), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 went	obl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cup	det
10	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cup	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 words	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	30 fire	case
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 as	fixed
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fire	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fire	cop
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boil	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	the queen			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the queen not said here	a cup of water			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the queen not said here	some words	water		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	make	past	some words	cup			tree rules
5	boil	infinitive	cup not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	cup			as the fire	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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