The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 28

He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook, who began to cook them as she had done the four others on the previous day.

Who acts: genius, cook · What happens: take, shut up, begin, cook, do · To what, where: fish, kitchen, genius, four others

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, cook), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shut	cc
9	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 shut	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 shut	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cook	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cook	det
14	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cook	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cook	mark
19	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cook	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 cook	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 others	nummod
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 done	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
30	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 day	amod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	genius	fish	the kitchen	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to kitchen=Destination
2	shut up	infinitive	genius not said here	genius			with the cook	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with cook=Instrument
3	begin	past	the cook					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cook	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	fish				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	do	past · perfect	cook	the four others		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality

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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