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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 24

"Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me with the clue I needed to complete the recovery of the princess.

Who acts: Sire, clue, Highness, princess · What happens: reply, supply, need, complete, tell, recover · To what, where: physician, tale, clue, recovery · 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 (Sire, clue, Highness, 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnmod:possnmod:posscasensubj:passauxconjobjcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompdetobjcasedetnmodpunctroot"PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETphysicianNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTyourPRONHighnessNOUN'sPARTtaleNOUNhasAUXsuppliedVERBmePRONwithADPtheDETclueNOUNIPRONneededVERBtoPARTcompleteVERBtheDETrecoveryNOUNofADPtheDETprincessNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
2SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
4""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 physiciandet
7physicianphysicianNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_15 suppliedpunct
9""PUNCT_15 suppliedpunct
10youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 Highnessnmod:poss
11HighnesshighnessNOUNNumber=Sing13 talenmod:poss
12's'sPART_11 Highnesscase
13taletaleNOUNNumber=Sing15 suppliednsubj:pass
14hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 suppliedaux
15suppliedsupplyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 repliedconj
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 suppliedobj
17withwithADP_19 cluecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 cluedet
19clueclueNOUNNumber=Sing15 suppliedobl
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 needednsubj
21neededneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 clueacl:relcl
22totoPART_23 completemark
23completecompleteVERBVerbForm=Inf21 neededxcomp
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 recoverydet
25recoveryrecoveryNOUNNumber=Sing23 completeobj
26ofofADP_28 princesscase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 princessdet
28princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing25 recoverynmod
29..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSirethe physicianvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent physician=Topic
2supply in a quotepresent · perfect · passiveyour Highness's talewith the cluetree rules
3need in a quotepastSirethe clue not said heretree rules
4complete not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivethe clue not said herethe recovery of the princessvn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recovery=Eventuality
5tell in a quoteyour Highnessnom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6recover in a quotethe princessnom recovery «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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