The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 82

Then, leaving it to its fate, they informed the Sultan that instead of the son he had so fondly desired the Sultana had given birth to a puppy.

Who acts: plotters, Sultan, cradle · What happens: leave, inform, have, desire, give, fate · To what, where: cradle, fate, Sultan, Sultana

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 (plotters, Sultan, cradle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leaving	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 informed	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaving	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 fate	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fate	nmod:poss
7	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaving	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leaving	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 informed	nsubj
10	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 informed	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	obj
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 son	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 son	det
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Sultan	acl:relcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 desired	advmod
21	fondly	fondly	ADV	_	22 desired	advmod
22	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Sultana	det
24	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 given	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 desired	ccomp
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 puppy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 puppy	det
30	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 birth	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	plotters = plotter not said here	cradle	cradle's fate	then		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to fate=Recipient
2	inform speech: other	past	plotters = plotter	the Sultan				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient
3	have	past	Sultan	the Sultan			instead the son	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	desire	past	Sultan not said here				fondly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	give	past · perfect · passive		the Sultana				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient birth=Theme
6	fate		cradle					nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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