The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 40

Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the King my father, who has a passion for all curious things, was seized with a violent desire to possess this horse, and asked the Indian what sum he would take for it.

Who acts: you, King, Indian sum, prince · What happens: continue, understand, have, seize, possess, ask · To what, where: prince, passion, horse, Indian sum · 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 (you, King, Indian sum, prince), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 continued	discourse
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 continued	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct
5	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 continued	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 understand	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 understand	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 understand	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	aux
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 understand	advmod
13	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 continued	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 has	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 understand	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 passion	det
23	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 things	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 things	det
26	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 passion	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seized	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seized	aux:pass
30	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 continued	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 desire	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 desire	det
33	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 desire	amod
34	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seized	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 possess	mark
36	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 seized	advcl
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 horse	det
38	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 possess	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 asked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 asked	cc
41	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 continued	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sum	det
43	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sum	amod
44	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	45 sum	det
45	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 asked	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 take	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 take	aux
48	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 sum	acl:relcl
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 take	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	continue in a quote	past		the prince	then		tree rules
2	understand	can	you			easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	present	the King	a passion		for all curious things	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Patient
4	seize	past · passive				with a violent desire	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
5	possess	to-infinitive		this horse			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	the Indian sum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	take	would	prince	the Indian sum not said here		for horse	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sum=Theme for it=Beneficiary

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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