The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 58

"Sire," replied Queen of Beauty, "the old lady who took care of me in my childhood was an accomplished magician, and she taught me seventy rules of her art, by means of which I could, in the twinkling of an eye, transplant your capital into the middle of the ocean.

Who acts: Sire, old lady, Queen, art · What happens: reply, take, accomplish, be, teach, mean · To what, where: care, childhood, accomplished magician, seventy rules, Sire, capital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, old lady, Queen, art), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 magician	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Beauty	case
8	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lady	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 lady	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lady	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lady	amod
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Queen	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lady	acl:relcl
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 took	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 childhood	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 childhood	nmod:poss
21	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 magician	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 magician	det
24	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 magician	amod
25	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taught	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taught	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taught	nsubj
29	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 taught	iobj
31	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 rules	amod
32	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 taught	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 art	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 art	nmod:poss
35	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rules	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 means	punct
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 means	case
38	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 taught	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 could	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 could	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 means	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 twinkling	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 twinkling	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 twinkling	det
46	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 means	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 eye	case
48	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 eye	det
49	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 twinkling	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 transplant	punct
51	transplant	transplant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 means	conj
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 capital	nmod:poss
53	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 transplant	obj
54	into	into	ADP	_	56 middle	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 middle	det
56	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 transplant	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 ocean	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ocean	det
59	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 middle	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Sire					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take in a quote	past	the old lady	care		my childhood	of Sire	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of i=Initial_Location
3	accomplish in a quote	participle						vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past	Queen of Beauty	a accomplished magician				tree rules
5	teach speech: other in a quote	past	Queen	seventy rules of Queen's art	Sire			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rule=Topic
6	mean in a quote	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	transplant in a quote	infinitive		your capital		the middle of the ocean		vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent capital=Patient
8	rule in a quote		Queen's art					nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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 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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