The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 116

For a long time they talked, and neither would listen to the other, till the Sultan sent for the door-keeper and bade him go instantly to the house of Abu Nowas and see if it was the man or his wife who was dead.

Who acts: tears, Sultan, house, wife · What happens: talk, listen, send, go, see, be · To what, where: house, man

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 (tears, Sultan, house, wife), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talked	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	nsubj
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listen	cc
9	neither	neither	ADV	_	11 listen	advmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	aux
11	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 other	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 other	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 listen	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 sent	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sultan	det
18	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 go	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 keeper	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 keeper	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeper	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 door	punct
24	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bade	cc
26	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 keeper	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bade	obj
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talked	parataxis
29	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Abu	case
34	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 house	nmod
35	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Abu	flat
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 man	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 man	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 man	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 man	det
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 see	ccomp
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 wife	cc
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 man	conj
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 dead	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 dead	cop
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 wife	acl:relcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	tears = tear			time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	listen	would					to the other; neither property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to other=Theme
3	send	past	the Sultan				for the door keeper and bade	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	present			the house of Abu		instantly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	house	the man or Abu's wife				tree rules
7	is	past	Abu's wife				dead property	tree rules

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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