The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 13

She listened kindly to what he had to say, and then answered:

Who acts: princess, father · What happens: listen, have, say, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, father), 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	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 listened	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 listened	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 answered	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 answered	advmod
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	parataxis
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	princess		kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
2	have	past	father			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past		then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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