The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 26

"A monkey!" exclaimed the Sultan.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: Sultan

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 monkey	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 monkey	det
3	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 monkey	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 monkey	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sultan	det
8	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	a monkey	the Sultan					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic

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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