The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 45

"Ask her advice, then," replied the Sultan, "and to-morrow come and hunt with me, and give me your answer."

Who acts: Sultan, your · What happens: ask, reply, come, hunt, give, answer · To what, where: advice, morrow, answer, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, your), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
2	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	ccomp
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 advice	nmod:poss
4	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ask	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Ask	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 morrow	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hunt	cc
20	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 answer	nmod:poss
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		sister's advice			then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Sultan						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	the Sultan not said here			morrow		with the Sultan = sultan	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location
4	hunt in a quote	present	the Sultan not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	infinitive	the Sultan not said here	your answer	the Sultan = sultan				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient answer=Theme
6	answer in a quote		your						nom answer «communication 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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