The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 27

He went back at once and carried them to the grand-vizir as he had promised.

Who acts: genius · What happens: go back, carry, promise · To what, where: fish, grand vizir

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 (genius), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 vizir	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vizir	det
11	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vizir	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 grand	punct
13	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 promised	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	aux
17	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 carried	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go back	past	genius			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	carry	past	genius not said here	fish	the grand vizir	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to vizir=Destination
3	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	genius			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: 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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