The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 20
"Well," asked the king as soon as he appeared, "and how did you find my son?"
Who acts: king, you · What happens: ask, appear, find · To what, where: son · 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 (king, you), 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 | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 asked | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 asked | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 soon | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 find | advmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | soon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | king | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past · do-support | you | my son | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/24/20/