The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 83

“Well, then, stay at home, if you like,” answered Abu Nowas, “and I will ask to be admitted to the Sultan’s presence, and will tell him, with sobs, that my wife is dead, and that I have no money for her burial.

Who acts: you, Abu, wife · What happens: stay, like, answer, ask, admit, tell · To what, where: home, presence, Abu, money · 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 (you, Abu, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 stay	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 like	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
17	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Abu	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ask	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 ask	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	aux
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 admitted	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 admitted	aux:pass
26	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ask	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 presence	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sultan	det
29	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 presence	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Sultan	case
31	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 admitted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tell	cc
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
35	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 ask	parataxis
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	iobj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sobs	punct
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 sobs	case
39	sobs	sob	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tell	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dead	punct
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 dead	mark
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 wife	nmod:poss
43	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dead	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 dead	cop
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tell	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 have	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 have	cc
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 have	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 have	nsubj
50	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	parataxis
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 money	det
52	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 have	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 burial	case
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 burial	nmod:poss
55	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 money	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote	infinitive				home	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	answer speech: assert	past	Abu						tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	future	Abu						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	admit speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	Abu not said here		the Sultan's presence				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to presence=Recipient
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	future			Abu			with sobs	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	is in a quote	present	my wife					dead property	tree rules
8	have in a quote	present	Abu	no money				for wife's burial	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
9	bury in a quote		wife						nom burial «event 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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