The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 38

Then he shut himself up with the grand-vizir, who began to prepare them and cook them.

Who acts: Sultan, grand vizir · What happens: shut up, begin, prepare, cook · To what, where: Sultan, fish

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, grand vizir), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 shut	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shut	nsubj
3	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 shut	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 shut	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 vizir	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vizir	det
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 vizir	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grand	punct
10	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 vizir	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 prepare	mark
15	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 prepare	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
18	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 prepare	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cook	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past	Sultan	Sultan	then	with the grand vizir	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with vizir=Instrument
2	begin	past	the grand vizir				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	prepare	to-infinitive	the grand vizir not said here	fish			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	cook	infinitive	the grand vizir 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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