The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 76

So Abu Nowas took his wife home, and for some time they were very happy, and spent the money freely which the Sultan had given them, never thinking what they should do for more when that was gone.

Who acts: Abu, clothes, that · What happens: take, be, spend, give, not think, do · To what, where: wife, money, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

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, clothes, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Abu	flat
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happy	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 happy	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happy	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happy	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happy	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 happy	advmod
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spent	cc
19	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 money	det
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spent	obj
22	freely	freely	ADV	_	19 spent	advmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 given	obj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sultan	det
25	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 spent	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 given	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thinking	punct
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 thinking	advmod
31	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 took	advcl
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 do	obj
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 thinking	ccomp
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 gone	mark
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 gone	advmod
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 gone	mark
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 gone	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 gone	cop
41	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 do	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Abu		Abu's wife		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
2	is	past	clothes			time	happy property	tree rules
3	spend	past	Abu not said here	the money			freely property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	give	past · perfect · passive		the Sultan				tree rules
5	not think speech: other	gerund	Abu not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	do	should	clothes					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	is	past	that				gone 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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