The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 41

Once upon a time there reigned over Persia a Sultan named Kosrouschah, who from his boyhood had been fond of putting on a disguise and seeking adventures in all parts of the city, accompanied by one of his officers, disguised like himself.

Who acts: Kosrouschah · What happens: reign, name, be, put, seek, accompany · To what, where: Persia, Sultan, boyhood, disguise, adventures, parts

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 (Kosrouschah), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 reigned	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 reigned	advmod
6	reigned	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 Persia	case
8	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reigned	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 named	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	nsubj:pass
11	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reigned	parataxis
12	Kosrouschah	Kosrouschah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fond	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fond	nsubj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 boyhood	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 boyhood	nmod:poss
17	boyhood	boyhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fond	obl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fond	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fond	cop
20	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Kosrouschah	amod
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 putting	mark
22	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 fond	advcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 disguise	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 disguise	det
25	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 putting	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seeking	cc
27	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 putting	conj
28	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seeking	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 parts	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 parts	det
31	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 seeking	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 city	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 city	det
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 parts	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 accompanied	punct
36	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 putting	advcl
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 one	case
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 accompanied	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 officers	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 officers	nmod:poss
41	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 disguised	punct
43	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 officers	acl
44	like	like	ADP	_	45 himself	case
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 disguised	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reigned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reign	past			Persia; there	time	once property	tree rules
2	name	participle · passive		Sultan				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	Kosrouschah		Sultan's boyhood		fond property	tree rules
4	put	gerund	Kosrouschah not said here		a disguise			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on disguise=Destination
5	seek	gerund	Kosrouschah not said here	adventures	all parts of the city			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme in part=Location
6	accompany	participle	Kosrouschah not said here				by one of Sultan's officers	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by one=Destination
7	disguise	participle		Sultan's officers not said here			like Sultan	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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