The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 6

"Most likely," said the prince; "but now that you are here I am glad of the opportunity to ask you where is the lady who slept in this room last night?"

Who acts: prince, you, lady · What happens: say, be, ask, sleep · To what, where: you, lady, 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 (prince, you, lady), 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 likely	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 likely	nsubj
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 likely	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	_	6 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 glad	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 glad	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 here	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 here	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 here	cop
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 now	ccomp
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 glad	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 glad	cop
19	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 opportunity	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 opportunity	det
22	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 glad	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 ask	mark
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 opportunity	acl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ask	iobj
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 lady	advmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 lady	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obl
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 slept	nsubj
31	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lady	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 room	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 room	det
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slept	obl
35	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 night	amod
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 slept	obl:unmarked
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the prince					likely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	you					here property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the prince = prince				now	of the opportunity; glad property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	the prince = prince not said here		you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present		the lady					tree rules
6	sleep in a quote	past	the lady			this room	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location

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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