The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 82

The princess sighed deeply, and at last told her mother how, during the night, the bed had been carried into some strange house, and what had passed there.

Who acts: princess · What happens: sigh, tell, carry, pass · To what, where: mother, last, bed, strange house · 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 (princess), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighed	nsubj
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	3 sighed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sighed	parataxis
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 mother	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 night	punct
14	during	during	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 carried	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 carried	aux:pass
22	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
23	into	into	ADP	_	26 house	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 house	det
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 house	amod
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 passed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 passed	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 passed	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	aux
31	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sighed	conj
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 passed	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	the princess					deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past			child's mother	last	night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		the bed		some strange house			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	pass	past · perfect · passive				there			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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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