The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 75

The princess was of course most anxious to entertain the Sultan in a fitting way, but as she had no experience in court customs she ran to the Talking Bird, and begged he would advise her as to what dishes should be served.

Who acts: princess, Sultan · What happens: be, entertain, have, run, beg, advise · To what, where: Sultan, fitting way, experience, court customs, princess, dishes · 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 (princess, Sultan), 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 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 anxious	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 anxious	case
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 anxious	advmod
7	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 entertain	mark
9	entertain	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 anxious	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 entertain	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 way	det
14	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 way	amod
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entertain	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anxious	parataxis
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 experience	det
22	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 customs	case
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 customs	compound
25	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 experience	nmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 customs	acl:relcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 Bird	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Bird	det
30	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Bird	compound
31	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 ran	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 begged	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 begged	cc
34	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 had	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 advise	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 advise	aux
37	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 begged	ccomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 advise	obj
39	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	41 what	case
40	to	to	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 advise	obl
42	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 served	nsubj:pass
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 served	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 served	aux:pass
45	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 what	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 anxious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess				anxious property	tree rules
2	entertain	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	the Sultan		a fitting way		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sultan=Experiencer
3	have	past	princess	no experience		court customs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient
4	run	past	princess	court customs not said here			to the Talking Bird result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent custom=Theme to bird=Result
5	beg speech: request	past	princess not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	advise speech: other	would	Sultan		princess			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	serve	should · passive		dishes				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute

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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