The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 52

He then told all to the king, who, overjoyed, hastened to his daughter's apartments, where, after embracing her, he placed her hand in that of the prince, saying:

Who acts: man, king · What happens: tell, overjoy, hasten, embrace, place, say · To what, where: king, apartments, princess, hand, that · 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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 king	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overjoyed	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 overjoyed	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 overjoyed	punct
11	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hastened	punct
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 overjoyed	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 apartments	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apartments	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 daughter	case
18	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hastened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 where	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 apartments	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 embracing	punct
22	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 embracing	mark
23	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 embracing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 placed	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 placed	nsubj
27	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 placed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 prince	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prince	det
34	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 that	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 placed	advcl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		the king		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
2	overjoy	participle	the king					tree rules
3	hasten	participle	the king not said here			man's daughter's apartments		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination
4	embrace	gerund	man not said here	princess				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	place	past	man	princess's hand		that		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in that=Destination
6	say speech: assert	gerund	man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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