The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 17

"Very well," said the prince; "then go and tell him that I consent to marry the lady whom he sent or brought here last night.

Who acts: prince · What happens: say, go, tell, consent, marry, send · To what, where: prince, lady · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince), 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	_	3 well	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 go	advmod
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 go	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 consent	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 consent	nsubj
18	consent	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 consent	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lady	det
22	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 marry	obj
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sent	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lady	acl:relcl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	conj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 brought	advmod
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 night	amod
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince					well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive					then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	consent in a quote	present	the prince = prince						vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here	the lady					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient
6	send in a quote	past	prince	the lady					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
7	bring in a quote	past	prince not said here			here	night		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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