The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 43

"Madam, a new astrologer has arrived, who declares that you will be cured as soon as you have read this letter and seen what it contains."

Who acts: new astrologer, Madam, you, letter · What happens: arrive, declare, cure, read, see, contain · To what, where: Madam, you, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new astrologer, Madam, you, letter), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 astrologer	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 astrologer	amod
6	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	nsubj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	aux
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Madam	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 declares	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 declares	nsubj
11	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Madam	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 cured	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 cured	nsubj:pass
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 cured	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 cured	aux:pass
16	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 declares	advcl
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 cured	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 read	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 read	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 read	aux
22	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 soon	advcl
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 letter	det
24	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 read	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seen	cc
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 read	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 contains	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 contains	nsubj
29	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arrive in a quote	present · perfect	a new astrologer	Madam not said here		tree rules
2	declare speech: other in a quote	present	Madam			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	cure in a quote	future · passive		you	soon property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
4	read in a quote	present · perfect	you	this letter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
5	see in a quote	participle	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	contain in a quote	present	letter			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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