The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 27

The Indian hastily quitted the presence of the Sultan, and when he was outside, he inquired of the man who had taken him out of prison where the prince had really been all this time, and what he had been doing.

Who acts: Indian hastily, Sultan, man, prince · What happens: quitt, be, inquire, take, have, do · To what, where: presence, Sultan, prison, time

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian hastily, Sultan, man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hastily	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hastily	amod
3	hastily	hastily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quitted	nsubj
4	quitted	quitt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 presence	det
6	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quitted	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sultan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 presence	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 outside	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 outside	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 outside	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 outside	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 outside	cop
15	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 quitted	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inquired	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 inquired	nsubj
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quitted	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 man	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inquired	obl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taken	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 man	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taken	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 prison	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 prison	case
28	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 taken	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 had	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 prison	acl:relcl
33	really	really	ADV	_	37 time	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 time	cop
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 time	det:predet
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 time	det
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 what	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 what	cc
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 inquired	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 doing	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 doing	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 doing	aux
44	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 what	acl:relcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	quitt	past	the Indian hastily	the presence of the Sultan			tree rules
2	is	past	Sultan			outside property	tree rules
3	inquire speech: other	past	Sultan			of the man	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of man=Recipient
4	take	past · perfect	the man	Sultan	prison		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out prison=Initial_Location
5	have	past	the prince				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	participle		all time			tree rules
7	do	past · perfect · progressive	Sultan				vn act-114-1 «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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