The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 75

"Once again, my father," said Scheherazade, "will you grant me what I ask?"

Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, grant, ask · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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 father	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 again	advmod
3	again	again	ADV	_	6 father	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 again	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 grant	punct
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grant	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 grant	nsubj
15	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 grant	obj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 ask	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ask	nsubj
19	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 grant	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 grant	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	my father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grant in a quote	future	you	my father = father	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	my father = father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

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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