The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 65

The bird answered that it was necessary that he should see her, and everything would turn out for the best.

Who acts: bird, everything · What happens: answer, be, see, turn out · To what, where: princess · 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 (bird, everything), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 necessary	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 necessary	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 necessary	cop
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 necessary	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 turn	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	aux
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 turn	compound:prt
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 best	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 best	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 turn	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the bird			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			necessary property	tree rules
3	see	should	bird	princess		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	turn out	would	everything		for the best	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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