The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 52

For the first time since his separation from the princess he had a good night, and next morning he was up at day-break and went cheerfully to ask what work he should do.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: have, go, ask, do, separate · To what, where: princess, work

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	since	since	ADP	_	7 separation	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 separation	nmod:poss
7	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 separation	nmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 princess	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 morning	cc
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 was	compound:prt
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 break	case
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 break	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 day	punct
26	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 was	conj
29	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 ask	mark
31	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	advcl
32	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	33 work	det
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ask	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 do	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 work	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Prince	the princess not said here	night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	go	past				cheerfully property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		what work			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient
4	do	should	Prince	what work not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	separate		Prince			from the princess	nom separation «state intransitive»: poss=agent from=obl

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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