The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 79

When he knew that he had at last found the princess whom he had so long lost, he set about devising a plan for her rescue.

Who acts: rest, last, princess · What happens: know, have, find, lose, set, devise · To what, where: princess, plan · 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 (rest, last, princess), 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	3 knew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 set	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	ccomp
7	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 found	mark
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 princess	acl:relcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 had	advmod
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 had	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 devising	mark
22	devising	devise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 set	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 plan	det
24	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 devising	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 rescue	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rescue	nmod:poss
27	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plan	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	rest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	rest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	last	the princess		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
4	have	past	rest	the princess	long property	tree rules
5	lose	participle	the princess not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	set	past	rest			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	devise	gerund	rest not said here	a plan	for Princess's rescue	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
8	rescue		Princess			nom rescue «act 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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