The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 96

As the palace of the new king, or rather of the Princess Badoura, overlooked the harbour, she saw the ship entering it and asked what vessel it was coming in so gaily decked with flags, and was told that it was a ship from the Island of the Idolaters which yearly brought rich merchandise.

Who acts: rest, ship, vessel · What happens: overlook, see, enter, ask, come in, deck · To what, where: harbour, ship, Island · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rest, ship, vessel), 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	ADP	_	3 palace	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 palace	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overlooked	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 king	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 palace	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 overlooked	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 overlooked	cc
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 overlooked	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Badoura	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Badoura	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Badoura	compound
14	Badoura	Badoura	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rather	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rather	punct
16	overlooked	overlook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 harbour	det
18	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 overlooked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 overlooked	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	entering	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 ship	acl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 entering	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
28	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	29 vessel	det
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coming	nsubj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 coming	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 coming	aux
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 asked	ccomp
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 coming	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 decked	advmod
35	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	36 decked	advmod
36	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 coming	advcl
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 flags	case
38	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 decked	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 told	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 told	cc
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 told	aux:pass
42	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 overlooked	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 ship	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 ship	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ship	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 ship	det
47	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 told	ccomp
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 Island	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Island	det
50	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 ship	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 Idolaters	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Idolaters	det
53	Idolaters	Idolater	PROPN	Number=Plur	50 Island	nmod
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 brought	obj
55	yearly	yearly	ADV	_	56 brought	advmod
56	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 ship	acl:relcl
57	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 merchandise	amod
58	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 brought	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 overlooked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overlook	past		the harbour		as the palace of the new king	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbour=Theme
2	see	past	rest	the ship			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus
3	enter	gerund	the ship not said here	ship			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	past	rest not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in	past · progressive	what vessel				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	deck	participle	what vessel not said here			with flags; gaily property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flag=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
8	is a	past	ship	a ship	the Island of the Idolaters		tree rules
9	bring	past		a ship		yearly property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Destination merchandise=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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