The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 113

On waking next morning the first thing Prince Camaralzaman did was to look round for the lovely lady he had seen at night, and the next to question the slave who waited on him about her.

Who acts: prince, slave · What happens: wake, be, see, question, wait · To what, where: first thing, lovely lady, slave

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, slave), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 waking	mark
2	waking	wake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 look	advcl
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waking	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waking	obj
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	appos
9	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Prince	flat
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 lady	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lady	det
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lady	amod
18	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lady	acl:relcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 next	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 next	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 next	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 question	mark
29	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 next	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 slave	det
31	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 question	obj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 waited	nsubj
33	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 slave	acl:relcl
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 waited	obl
36	about	about	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 waited	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake	gerund		the first thing	morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is	past · do-support				for the lovely lady; look, round property	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect	prince	the lovely lady not said here	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
4	be						tree rules
5	question speech: other	to-infinitive		the slave			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient
6	wait	past	the slave			on prince; about lady	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location

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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