The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 17

To this the prince agreed, and they consulted together over a plan by which she might be able to make her escape and return with him into Persia.

Who acts: prince, words, princess · What happens: agree, consult, be, make, escape, return · To what, where: plan, princess, Persia

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, words, 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 agreed	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 consulted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 consulted	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 consulted	nsubj
9	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	conj
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 consulted	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 plan	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 plan	det
13	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 consulted	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 able	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 able	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 able	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plan	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	obj
23	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 return	cc
25	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 escape	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 return	obl
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 Persia	case
29	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 return	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the prince			to this	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	consult	past	words = word		a plan	together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	might	princess			by a plan; able property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess			tree rules
5	escape	infinitive	princess not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	return	infinitive	princess not said here		Persia	with Prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into persia=Initial_Location

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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