The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 74

When the Sultan of Cashmere saw that the court doctors could do nothing towards curing the princess, he called in those of the city, who fared no better.

Who acts: Sultan, court doctors, city · What happens: see, do, cure, call, fare · To what, where: nothing, princess, those, better · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sultan, court doctors, city), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Cashmere	case
5	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sultan	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 called	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctors	det
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 doctors	compound
10	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saw	ccomp
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 do	obj
14	towards	towards	SCONJ	_	15 curing	mark
15	curing	cure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 do	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 curing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
20	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 those	case
22	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 called	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 city	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 city	det
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 those	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fared	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fared	nsubj
28	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 city	acl:relcl
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 better	advmod
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 fared	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	the Sultan of Cashmere			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	could	the court doctors	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	cure	gerund	the court doctors not said here	the princess		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source
4	call	past	Sultan		those	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fare	past	the city	better		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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