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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 96

Then Zobeida took her handkerchief and wiped the dog's eyes tenderly, after which she kissed it, then, putting the chain into the porter's hand she said, "Take it back to the closet and bring me the other."

Who acts: Zobeida, porter · What happens: take, wipe, kiss, put, say, take back · To what, where: handkerchief, eyes, chain, hand, closet, other · 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 (Zobeida, porter), 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

advmodnsubjnmod:possobjccconjdetnmod:posscaseobjxcomppunctcaseoblnsubjconjobjpunctadvmodpunctadvcldetobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctparataxisobjadvmodcasedetoblccconjobjdetobjpunctpunctrootThenADVZobeidaPROPNtookVERBherPRONhandkerchiefNOUNandCCONJwipedVERBtheDETdogNOUN'sPARTeyesNOUNtenderlyADJ,PUNCTafterADPwhichPRONshePRONkissedVERBitPRON,PUNCTthenADV,PUNCTputtingVERBtheDETchainNOUNintoADPtheDETporterNOUN'sPARThandNOUNshePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTTakeVERBitPRONbackADVtoADPtheDETclosetNOUNandCCONJbringVERBmePRONtheDETotherADJ.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 tookadvmod
2ZobeidaZobeidaPROPNNumber=Sing3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 handkerchiefnmod:poss
5handkerchiefhandkerchiefNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
6andandCCONJ_7 wipedcc
7wipedwipeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 dogdet
9dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing11 eyesnmod:poss
10's'sPART_9 dogcase
11eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur7 wipedobj
12tenderlytenderlyADJDegree=Pos7 wipedxcomp
13,,PUNCT_17 kissedpunct
14afterafterADP_15 whichcase
15whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 kissedobl
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 kissednsubj
17kissedkissVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 kissedobj
19,,PUNCT_22 puttingpunct
20thenthenADVPronType=Dem22 puttingadvmod
21,,PUNCT_22 puttingpunct
22puttingputVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 tookadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 chaindet
24chainchainNOUNNumber=Sing22 puttingobj
25intointoADP_29 handcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 porterdet
27porterporterNOUNNumber=Sing29 handnmod:poss
28's'sPART_27 portercase
29handhandNOUNNumber=Sing22 puttingobl
30sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 saidnsubj
31saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 handacl:relcl
32,,PUNCT_34 Takepunct
33""PUNCT_34 Takepunct
34TaketakeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 tookparataxis
35ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 Takeobj
36backbackADV_34 Takeadvmod
37totoADP_39 closetcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 closetdet
39closetclosetNOUNNumber=Sing34 Takeobl
40andandCCONJ_41 bringcc
41bringbringVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin34 Takeconj
42meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs41 bringobj
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 otherdet
44otherotherADJDegree=Pos41 bringobj
45..PUNCT_3 tookpunct
46""PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastZobeidaporter's handkerchiefthenvn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme clause=Attribute
2wipepastZobeida not said herethe dog's eyestenderly propertyvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source
3kisspastporterhandkerchiefvn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
4putgerundZobeida not said herethe chainthe porter's handthenvn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chain=Goal
5say speech: assertpastporterthe porter's hand not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hand=Topic
6take back in a quoteinfinitivechainthe closetvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to closet=Destination
7bring in a quoteinfinitivethe otherwhipvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination other=Theme

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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