The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 124

When the steward's daughter came I asked her if she could change my son back to his proper shape."

Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: come, ask, change back · To what, where: daughter, son

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steward	det
3	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughter	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 steward	case
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	advcl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 change	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 change	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obj
16	back	back	ADV	_	13 change	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 shape	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shape	nmod:poss
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shape	amod
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the steward's daughter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	I		daughter		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	change back a condition, not said to happen	could	daughter	my son		to son's proper shape	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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