The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 80

The Sultan sent her mother to her, who said: "How comes it, child, that you will not speak to your father?

Who acts: Sultan, you · What happens: send, say, come, not speak · To what, where: mother, genie, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 comes	punct
13	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 comes	advmod
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 comes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 child	punct
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 speak	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 speak	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 speak	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 speak	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 speak	advmod
23	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 comes	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 speak	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Sultan	genie's mother	genie		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme to she=Destination
2	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present		word		child obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	not speak speech: other in a quote	future	you			to your father	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to father=Co-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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