The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 93

The first thing the princess did on entering the palace was to send for the head cook and to order the repast for the Sultan When she had finished she suddenly added, "Besides the dishes I have mentioned there is one that you must prepare expressly for the Sultan, and that no one must touch but yourself.

Who acts: princess, first thing, one · What happens: do, enter, be, order, finish, add · To what, where: first thing, palace, repast, one, yourself · 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, first thing, one), 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	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 entering	mark
8	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entering	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 send	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 send	mark
13	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 cook	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cook	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cook	compound
17	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 send	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 order	cc
19	to	to	PART	_	20 order	mark
20	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 send	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 repast	det
22	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 order	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 Sultan	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Sultan	det
25	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 repast	nmod
26	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 finished	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 finished	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 finished	aux
29	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 order	advcl
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 added	nsubj
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 added	advmod
32	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 finished	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 mentioned	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 mentioned	punct
35	Besides	besides	ADP	_	37 dishes	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dishes	det
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 mentioned	obl
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 mentioned	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 mentioned	aux
40	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 send	advcl
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 one	expl
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 one	cop
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 mentioned	obj
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 prepare	nsubj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 prepare	nsubj
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 prepare	aux
47	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 one	acl:relcl
48	expressly	expressly	ADV	_	47 prepare	advmod
49	for	for	ADP	_	51 Sultan	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Sultan	det
51	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 prepare	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 touch	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 touch	cc
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 touch	mark
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 one	det
56	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 touch	nsubj
57	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 touch	aux
58	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 send	conj
59	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 yourself	cc
60	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	58 touch	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the princess	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	enter	gerund	the princess not said here	the palace			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
3	is	past	the first thing			for the head cook; send property	tree rules
4	order	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here	the repast		for the Sultan	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent repast=Theme for sultan=Beneficiary
5	finish	past · perfect	princess				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	add speech: assert	past	princess			suddenly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	mention speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	princess			besides the dishes	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a in a quote	present		one	there		tree rules
9	prepare in a quote	must				for the Sultan; expressly property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sultan=Beneficiary
10	touch in a quote	must	no one	yourself			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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