The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 109
As Abu Nowas had foreseen, the Sultan went, in the evening after his business was over, to pay his usual visit to the Sultana.
Who acts: Abu, Sultan, business · What happens: have, go, be, pay, visit · To what, where: evening, usual visit
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, Sultan, business), 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 | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 2 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Abu | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | foreseen | foreseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 evening | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 evening | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 over | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 business | nmod:poss |
| 16 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 over | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 over | cop |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 evening | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pay | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pay | mark |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 visit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 visit | amod |
| 24 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pay | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Sultana | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Sultana | det |
| 27 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Abu | foreseen property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Sultan | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Abu's business | the evening not said here | over property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | Abu's usual visit | to the Sultana | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 5 | visit | Abu | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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