The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 22

The Prince of Persia left the room at the same time, and asked if he might be allowed humbly to inquire by what means the Princess of Bengal had reached Cashmere, which was so far distant from her father's kingdom, and how she came to be there alone.

Who acts: Prince, Cashmere, princess · What happens: leave, ask, allow, inquire, mean, reach · To what, where: room, Prince, Princess, kingdom · 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, Cashmere, 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Persia	case
4	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Prince	nmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	parataxis
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 allowed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 allowed	nsubj:pass
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 allowed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	aux:pass
19	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 asked	ccomp
20	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	19 allowed	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 inquire	mark
22	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allowed	xcomp
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 means	mark
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 inquire	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 reached	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Bengal	case
29	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Princess	nmod
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reached	aux
31	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 means	ccomp
32	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 reached	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 distant	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 distant	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 distant	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	38 distant	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 distant	advmod
38	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Cashmere	amod
39	from	from	ADP	_	43 kingdom	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 kingdom	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 father	case
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 distant	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 came	advmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	51 there	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 there	cop
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 came	advcl
52	alone	alone	ADV	_	48 came	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Prince of Persia	the room		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	allow a condition, not said to happen	might · passive		Prince			humbly property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	inquire speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	reach	past · perfect · passive		the Princess of Bengal				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cashmere=Theme
7	is	past	Cashmere		princess's father's kingdom		distant, far property	tree rules
8	come	past	princess				alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	is	to-infinitive	princess not said here				there property	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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