The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 43

"Tell us, I pray you," said his wife, "what has happened."

Who acts: wife · What happens: tell, pray, say, happen · To what, where: us, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pray	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 pray	nsubj
6	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pray	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happened	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 wife	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	pray in a quote	present	merchant's wife = wife	you		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	merchant's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen in a quote	present · perfect	merchant's wife			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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