The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 52

As I grew up, and was allowed more liberty, I went every year to pay a visit to my uncle's court, and usually stayed there about two months.

Who acts: I · What happens: grow up, allow, go, pay, stay · To what, where: more liberty, visit

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grew	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 allowed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 allowed	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	aux:pass
8	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 liberty	amod
10	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 allowed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 allowed	conj
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pay	mark
17	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 visit	det
19	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pay	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 court	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 uncle	nmod:poss
22	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 court	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 uncle	case
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stayed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stayed	cc
27	usually	usually	ADV	_	28 stayed	advmod
28	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 stayed	advmod
30	about	about	ADV	_	31 two	advmod
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 months	nummod
32	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stayed	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	I					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	allow	past · passive	I not said here	more liberty				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: liberty=Beneficiary
3	go	past	I			year		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay	to-infinitive	I not said here	a visit			to my uncle's court	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
5	stay	past	I not said here		there	month	usually property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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