The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 65

One day Abu Nowas came weeping into the hall of the palace where the Sultan was sitting, and said to him: “Oh, mighty Sultan, my wife is dead.”

Who acts: Abu, Sultan, wife · What happens: come, weep, sit, say, be · To what, where: hall, Abu, mighty Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abu, Sultan, wife), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Abu	flat
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weeping	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palace	det
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hall	nmod
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 sitting	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sultan	det
15	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sitting	aux
17	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 palace	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Sultan	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Sultan	punct
25	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	27 mighty	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Oh	punct
27	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Sultan	amod
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dead	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dead	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 dead	cop
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Sultan	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 Sultan	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Abu				day		tree rules
2	weep	gerund	Abu not said here			the hall of the palace			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hall=Recipient
3	sit	past · progressive	the Sultan						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Abu not said here		Abu				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	is in a quote	present	my wife	mighty Sultan not said here				dead property	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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