The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 93

As soon as they were left alone Marzavan told the prince the story of the Princess Badoura and her sufferings, adding, "I am convinced that you alone can cure her; but before starting on so long a journey you must be well and strong, so do your best to recover as quickly as may be."

Who acts: Marzavan, prince · What happens: leave, tell, add, be, cure, start on · To what, where: interview, story, prince, Marzavan, best · 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 (Marzavan, prince), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 told	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 left	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	advcl
7	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 left	xcomp
8	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Badoura	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Badoura	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Badoura	compound
17	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 story	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sufferings	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sufferings	nmod:poss
20	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 Badoura	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 adding	punct
22	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 told	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 convinced	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 convinced	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 convinced	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 convinced	cop
27	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 adding	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 cure	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 cure	nsubj
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	32 cure	advmod
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cure	aux
32	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 convinced	ccomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cure	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 do	cc
36	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 starting	mark
37	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 do	advcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	37 starting	compound:prt
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 long	advmod
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 starting	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 journey	det
42	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 long	nsubj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 well	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 well	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 well	cop
46	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 journey	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 strong	cc
48	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 well	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 starting	punct
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 do	advmod
51	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 told	parataxis
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 best	nmod:poss
53	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 do	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 recover	mark
55	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 do	advcl
56	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	60 be	cc
57	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	56 as	advmod
58	as	as	ADP	_	56 as	fixed
59	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 be	aux
60	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 recover	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		interview		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Marzavan	the story of the Princess Badoura and Marzavan's sufferings	the prince	soon property	tree rules
3	add speech: assert	gerund	Marzavan not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is in a quote	present	Marzavan			convinced property	tree rules
5	cure in a quote	can	the prince = prince	Marzavan		alone property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
6	start on in a quote	gerund				long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is in a quote	must	the prince = prince			well property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		the prince = prince not said here				tree rules
9	do in a quote	infinitive		your best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
10	recover in a quote	to-infinitive					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	be in a quote	may					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	suffer		Marzavan				nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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