The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 37
As soon as the Sultan had the fish he had them carried to his room with all that was needed to cook them.
Who acts: Sultan, that · What happens: have, carry, need, cook · To what, where: fish, room, that
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 (Sultan, that), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 carried | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | aux |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 room | nmod:poss |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 needed | mark |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 needed | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 needed | aux:pass |
| 20 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 carried | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cook | mark |
| 22 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 needed | xcomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cook | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Sultan | the fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · perfect | Sultan's room | soon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | need | past · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive | that not said here | fish | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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