The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 15

The prince then inquired if she knew what had become of the enchanted horse since the Indian's death, but the princess could only reply that she had heard nothing about it.

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: inquire, know, become, enchant, reply, hear · To what, where: nothing · 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), 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	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inquired	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 inquired	advmod
4	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 knew	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inquired	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 knew	ccomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 horse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
15	since	since	ADP	_	19 death	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Indian	det
17	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 death	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Indian	case
19	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reply	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 reply	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 princess	det
23	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reply	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 reply	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 reply	advmod
26	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inquired	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 heard	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 reply	advcl
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 heard	obj
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 nothing	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	the prince		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	princess				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	become	past · perfect			since the Indian's death	of the enchanted horse	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	reply speech: assert	could	the princess				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear	past · perfect	princess	nothing		about death	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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