The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 12

When he had finished, he begged in his turn that the princess would tell him how she had come there, so that he might the better devise some means of rescuing her from the tyranny of the Sultan.

Who acts: Prince, princess, better devise · What happens: finish, beg, tell, come, devise, mean · To what, where: turn, Prince, princess, tyranny · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, princess, better devise), 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	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 begged	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	nsubj
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 turn	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 turn	nmod:poss
10	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 begged	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 tell	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 tell	advcl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 means	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	31 means	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 devise	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 devise	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 devise	aux
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 devise	det
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 devise	amod
29	devise	devise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 means	nsubj
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 begged	parataxis
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 rescuing	mark
33	rescuing	rescue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 means	advcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rescuing	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 tyranny	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tyranny	det
37	tyranny	tyranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rescuing	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 Sultan	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Sultan	det
40	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tyranny	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	Prince				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	past	Prince			Prince's turn	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	would	the princess		Prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	come	past · perfect	princess			there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	devise	might	Prince				tree rules
6	mean	present	the better devise				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	rescue	gerund	the better devise not said here	princess		the tyranny of the Sultan	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from tyranny=Source

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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