The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 7

The cook, when she had cleaned the fish, put them in a pan with some oil to fry them.

Who acts: cook · What happens: clean, put, fry · To what, where: fish, pan

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cleaned	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cleaned	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cleaned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cleaned	aux
7	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cook	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaned	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pan	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pan	det
15	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 oil	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 oil	det
18	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fry	mark
20	fry	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fry	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	clean	past · perfect	cook	the fish			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	put	infinitive	the cook	fish	a pan	with some oil	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pan=Destination
3	fry	to-infinitive	the cook 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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