The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 60

The Sultan asked her kindly what she had in the napkin, whereupon she unfolded the jewels and presented them.

Who acts: Sultan, woman · What happens: ask, have, unfold, present · To what, where: woman, napkin, jewels

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 asked	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 napkin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 napkin	det
11	napkin	napkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 unfolded	punct
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	15 unfolded	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 unfolded	nsubj
15	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jewels	det
17	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 unfolded	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 presented	cc
19	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 unfolded	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 presented	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Sultan		woman			tree rules
2	have	past	woman			the napkin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	unfold	past	woman	the jewels			whereupon property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient
4	present	past	woman not said here	jewels = jewel				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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