The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 28

The king was almost speechless on hearing his son, but after a time assured him most solemnly that he knew nothing whatever about the lady in question, and had not connived at her appearance.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, hear, assure, know, not connive · To what, where: son, king, nothing, appearance

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), 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	5 speechless	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speechless	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 speechless	advmod
5	speechless	speechless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 speechless	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 assured	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 assured	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 assured	obl
15	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 speechless	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 assured	iobj
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 solemnly	advmod
18	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	15 assured	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 knew	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 assured	advcl
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 knew	obj
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 nothing	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 lady	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lady	det
26	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 whatever	nmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 question	case
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lady	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 connived	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 connived	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 connived	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 connived	advmod
33	connived	connive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 knew	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 appearance	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 appearance	nmod:poss
36	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 connived	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 speechless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king					almost, speechless property	tree rules
2	hear	gerund	the king not said here	king's son					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
3	assure	participle			king		time	solemnly property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	know	past	king	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	not connive	past · perfect	king not said here			lady's appearance			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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