The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 64

Good dervish," she said politely, "will you allow me to rest by you for a few moments, and perhaps you will be so kind as to tell me if you have ever heard of a Talking Bird, a Singing Tree, and some Golden Water that are to be found somewhere near this?"

Who acts: Good dervish, you · What happens: say, allow, rest, be, tell, hear · To what, where: me, Golden Water, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good dervish, you), 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dervish	amod
2	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dervish	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 dervish	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 allow	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 allow	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 allow	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 allow	nsubj
12	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 allow	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 rest	mark
15	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 allow	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 rest	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 moments	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moments	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moments	amod
21	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 rest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kind	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kind	cc
24	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	29 kind	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 kind	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 kind	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 kind	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 kind	advmod
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
31	to	to	PART	_	32 tell	mark
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 kind	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 heard	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	aux
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 heard	advmod
38	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 tell	advcl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 Bird	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 Bird	det
41	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Bird	compound
42	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 heard	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Tree	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 Tree	det
45	Singing	Singing	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Tree	compound
46	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Bird	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Water	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 Water	cc
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	51 Water	det
50	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Water	amod
51	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 found	nsubj:pass
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 found	aux:pass
54	to	to	PART	_	56 found	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 found	aux:pass
56	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 Water	acl:relcl
57	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	56 found	advmod
58	near	near	ADP	_	59 this	case
59	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 found	obl
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	56 found	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 Water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Good dervish					politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow	future	you		me				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	rest not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				moment	by you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by you=Location
4	is	future	you					kind, perhaps property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	hear a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you				ever	of a Talking Bird and a Singing Tree	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bird=Stimulus
7	find	present · passive	Good dervish not said here	some Golden Water		this		somewhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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