The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 52

After he had kissed her Aladdin said: "I beg of you, Princess, in God's name, before we speak of anything else, for your own sake and mine, tell me what has become of an old lamp I left on the cornice in the hall of four-and-twenty windows, when I went a-hunting."

Who acts: Aladdin, we, twenty windows, God · What happens: kiss, say, beg, speak, tell, become · To what, where: Princess, name, Aladdin, old lamp, cornice, hunting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin, we, twenty windows, God), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 kissed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kissed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kissed	aux
4	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 Aladdin	nmod:poss
6	Aladdin	aladdin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 beg	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 beg	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 beg	nsubj
11	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 beg	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Princess	punct
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beg	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 name	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 name	case
18	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 name	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 God	case
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beg	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 speak	punct
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 speak	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 speak	nsubj
24	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 beg	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 anything	case
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 speak	obl
27	else	else	ADV	_	26 anything	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sake	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 sake	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sake	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sake	amod
32	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 speak	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mine	cc
34	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sake	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 tell	iobj
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 become	nsubj
39	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 become	aux
40	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 tell	ccomp
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 lamp	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lamp	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lamp	amod
44	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 become	obl
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 left	nsubj
46	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 lamp	acl:relcl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 cornice	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 cornice	det
49	cornice	cornice	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 left	obl
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 hall	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 hall	det
52	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 left	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 four	case
54	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 hall	nmod
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	63 went	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 went	cc
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 and	punct
58	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	59 windows	nummod
59	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 went	nsubj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 went	punct
61	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	63 went	advmod
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 went	nsubj
63	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 four	conj
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 hunting	det
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 a	punct
66	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 went	obj
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	past · perfect	Aladdin					vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	princess's Aladdin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	beg speech: request in a quote	present	princess's Aladdin = aladdin	Princess		God's name	of you	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
4	speak speech: other in a quote	present	we				of anything; for your own sake and mine	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			princess's Aladdin = aladdin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	become in a quote	present · perfect					of a old lamp	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	leave in a quote	past	princess's Aladdin = aladdin	a old lamp not said here		the cornice	in the hall of four	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme on cornice=Location
8	go in a quote	past	twenty windows	a hunting				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme
9	name in a quote		God					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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