The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 25

At last the king said: "My son, pray tell me about the lady who, it is said, was in your room last night."

Who acts: last king, son · What happens: say, pray, tell, be · To what, where: last king, question, room · 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 (last king, son), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 son	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pray	punct
11	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 son	acl:relcl
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 lady	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lady	det
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 who	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 said	aux:pass
21	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lady	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 room	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 room	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 room	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 room	nmod:poss
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	ccomp
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 night	amod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 room	obl:unmarked
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the last king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pray in a quote	present	My son not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	My son		the last king = king			about the lady	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about lady=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present · passive		question				the lady obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	is in a quote	past				your room	night		tree rules

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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