The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

"Well," asked the Sultan, "can you tell me what must be done to disenchant the young prince?"

Who acts: Sultan, you · What happens: ask, tell, do, disenchant · To what, where: Sultan, young prince · 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 (Sultan, 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	_	5 asked	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 asked	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 done	obj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	aux:pass
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tell	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 disenchant	mark
19	disenchant	disenchant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 done	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prince	amod
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 disenchant	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Sultan			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		the Sultan = sultan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	must · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	disenchant in a quote	to-infinitive		the young prince		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 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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