The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 1

The king, much moved, begged the vizir to examine into this new misfortune, and the latter at once went to the tower, where he found the prince quietly reading a book.

Who acts: king, latter · What happens: move, beg, examine, go, find, read · To what, where: vizir, new misfortune, tower, prince, book

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, latter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moved	punct
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 moved	advmod
5	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 king	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vizir	det
9	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 examine	mark
11	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 misfortune	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 misfortune	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 misfortune	amod
15	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 examine	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 latter	det
19	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 went	nsubj
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 went	advmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 begged	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 tower	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tower	det
25	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 found	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 found	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 found	obj
32	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	33 reading	advmod
33	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 found	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 book	det
35	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reading	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past	the king not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	the king	the vizir			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient
3	examine	to-infinitive	the king not said here		this new misfortune		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the latter		the tower	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=Initial_Location
5	find	past	king	the prince			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
6	read	gerund	king not said here	a book		quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

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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