The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 56

Take my advice, put on a short coat, and as you seem hardy and strong, go into the woods and cut firewood, which you will sell in the streets.

Who acts: you, cut firewood · What happens: take, put, seem, go, cut, sell · To what, where: advice, short coat, woods, streets

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cut firewood), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 advice	nmod:poss
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 advice	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 coat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coat	det
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 seem	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 seem	nsubj
14	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 go	advcl
15	hardy	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seem	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strong	cc
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hardy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seem	punct
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 woods	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woods	det
22	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 go	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 firewood	cc
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 firewood	amod
25	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 woods	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sell	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sell	nsubj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 sell	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sell	aux
30	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 firewood	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 streets	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 streets	det
33	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	my advice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
2	put	participle		my advice not said here	a short coat		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination
3	seem	present	you			hardy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	go	infinitive	you not said here		the woods and cut firewood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
5	cut	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	sell	future	cut firewood		the streets		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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