The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 14

From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel."

Who acts: place, last porter, you, I · What happens: go, exclaim, lady, tell, buy, stock · To what, where: shop, last porter, despair, you, me, enough provisions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, last porter, you, I), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 shop	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 butcher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 butcher	det
8	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	's	's	PART	_	8 butcher	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grocer	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 grocer	det
12	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 butcher	conj
13	's	's	PART	_	12 grocer	case
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lady	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lady	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 poulterer	det
17	poulterer	poulterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lady	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 poulterer	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 porter	punct
20	till	till	ADP	_	24 porter	case
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 porter	amod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 porter	det
24	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lady	nsubj
25	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 porter	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 despair	case
27	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 exclaimed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lady	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 lady	punct
30	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lady	nmod:poss
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lady	amod
32	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 told	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 told	aux
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 told	advmod
38	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 told	iobj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 going	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 going	aux
42	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 told	ccomp
43	to	to	PART	_	44 buy	mark
44	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 going	xcomp
45	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 provisions	amod
46	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 buy	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 stock	mark
48	stock	stock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 buy	advcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 town	det
50	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stock	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 brought	punct
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 brought	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 brought	aux
54	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 brought	aux
55	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 went	parataxis
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 horse	det
57	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 brought	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 camel	punct
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 camel	cc
60	rather	rather	ADV	_	62 camel	advmod
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 camel	det
62	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	parataxis
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	62 camel	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	62 camel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	place			this shop	to a butcher and a grocer	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	participle		the last porter not said here		despair		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	lady in a quote		the last porter					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		you	me			tree rules
5	go in a quote	past · progressive	you					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	buy in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	enough provisions				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme
7	stock in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a town				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
8	bring in a quote	would · perfect	I		a horse			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination

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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