The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 5

Seeing that he looked at them with interest, I ventured to say that I myself and all that I had were at his disposal, but he answered me smiling:

Who acts: I, king · What happens: see, look, venture, say, have, be · To what, where: disposal, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ventured	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 looked	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Seeing	ccomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 interest	case
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ventured	nsubj
11	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ventured	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 myself	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 myself	nsubj
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 say	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 disposal	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 disposal	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 all	acl:relcl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 disposal	cop
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 disposal	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 disposal	nmod:poss
25	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 myself	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 answered	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 answered	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 answered	nsubj
29	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ventured	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 answered	obj
31	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 answered	advcl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 ventured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	past	king			at heaps = heap; with interest	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
3	venture	past	I				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	I				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
6	is	past	I not said here		king's disposal		tree rules
7	answer speech: assert	past	king	me			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
8	smile	gerund	king not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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