The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 85

She then confessed all, bidding him ask the vizir's son if it were not so.

Who acts: child, head · What happens: confess, bid, ask, not be · To what, where: all, Sultan, son

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 (child, head), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 confessed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 confessed	advmod
3	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 confessed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bidding	punct
6	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 confessed	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bidding	obj
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bidding	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 vizir	det
10	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 vizir	case
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 so	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 so	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 so	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 so	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	8 ask	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past	child	all		then		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic
2	bid	gerund	child not said here	Sultan				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	child not said here		the vizir's son			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient
4	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	head				so property	tree rules

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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