The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 41

Then having told me where I could hear news of her, she vanished.

Who acts: I, wife · What happens: have, tell, hear, vanish · To what, where: me, news · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 having	advmod
2	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 told	ccomp
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 hear	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 news	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 vanished	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vanished	nsubj
14	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	have	gerund				then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hear not said to happen	could	I	news of wife			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus
4	vanish	past	wife				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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