The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 65

The emir, who had expected to hear the princess talk nonsense, finding how calm and reasonable she was, assured the king that he could not venture to undertake a cure, but placed his head at his Majesty's disposal, on which the justly irritated monarch promptly had it cut off.

Who acts: emir, princess, irritated monarch, head · What happens: expect, hear, talk, find, assure, not venture · To what, where: emir, princess, nonsense, cure, head, disposal · 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 (emir, princess, irritated monarch, head), 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 emir	det
2	emir	emir	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 expected	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 expected	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expected	aux
6	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 emir	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 expected	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hear	xcomp
12	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 finding	punct
14	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 hear	advcl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 calm	advmod
16	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 finding	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reasonable	cc
18	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 calm	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 assured	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 assured	aux:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 assured	punct
22	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 finding	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 assured	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 venture	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 venture	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 venture	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 venture	advmod
29	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 assured	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 undertake	mark
31	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 venture	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cure	det
33	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 undertake	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 placed	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 placed	cc
36	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	obj
39	at	at	ADP	_	43 disposal	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 Majesty	nmod:poss
41	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 disposal	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 Majesty	case
43	disposal	disposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 placed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
45	on	on	ADP	_	46 which	case
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 had	obl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 monarch	det
48	justly	justly	ADV	_	49 irritated	advmod
49	irritated	irritate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 monarch	amod
50	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	nsubj
51	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	52 had	advmod
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 placed	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 had	obj
54	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 had	xcomp
55	off	off	ADP	_	54 cut	compound:prt
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	past · perfect · passive		the emir			tree rules
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	the emir not said here	the princess			tree rules
3	talk	infinitive	the princess not said here	nonsense			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient
4	find	gerund	the emir not said here			calm property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	assure	past · passive		Princess			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=Theme
6	not venture	could	emir				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	undertake	to-infinitive	emir not said here	a cure			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Eventuality
8	place	past	the emir	emir's head	emir's Majesty's disposal		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme at disposal=Destination
9	irritate	participle				justly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	have	past	the irritated monarch	head		promptly property	tree rules
11	cut off	participle	head not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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