The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 91

Then, on the way back to the palace, she told them of her consultation with the bird, and the advice it had given her.

Who acts: princess · What happens: tell, give, consult · To what, where: brothers, way, advice · 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), 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	12 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 palace	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 consultation	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 consultation	nmod:poss
16	consultation	consultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bird	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 consultation	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 given	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 advice	det
23	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	nsubj:pass
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	12 told	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	princess		brothers = brother	the way	then	of princess's consultation with the bird	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	give	past · perfect · passive		the advice					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
3	consult		princess					with the bird	nom consultation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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