The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 23

The Sultan thought the question very natural, and told him the same story that the Princess of Bengal had done, adding that he had ordered the enchanted horse to be taken to his treasury as a curiosity, though he was quite ignorant how it could be used.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: think, tell, do, add, order, enchant · To what, where: question, same story, Sultan, Princess, enchanted horse, story · 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 (Sultan), 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 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 natural	advmod
7	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 story	amod
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 done	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princess	det
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 done	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Bengal	case
19	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Princess	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 story	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 adding	punct
23	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 told	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 ordered	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ordered	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 ordered	aux
27	ordered	order	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 adding	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 horse	det
29	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 horse	amod
30	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ordered	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	33 taken	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 taken	aux:pass
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 horse	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 treasury	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 treasury	nmod:poss
36	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	obl
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 curiosity	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 curiosity	det
39	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 taken	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ignorant	punct
41	though	though	SCONJ	_	45 ignorant	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ignorant	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 ignorant	cop
44	quite	quite	ADV	_	45 ignorant	advmod
45	ignorant	ignorant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 told	parataxis
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	50 used	advmod
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 used	nsubj:pass
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 used	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 used	aux:pass
50	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 ignorant	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Sultan	the question		natural property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot question=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past		the same story	Sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	do	past · perfect · passive		the Princess of Bengal			tree rules
4	add speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	order	past · perfect	Sultan		the enchanted horse		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	enchant	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	take	to-infinitive · passive	Sultan not said here			to Sultan's treasury result; as a curiosity	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to treasury=Result
8	is	past	Sultan			ignorant property	tree rules
9	use	could · passive		story			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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