The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 50

Sire," she said to her father, "what can you be thinking of to summon me like this into the presence of a man?"

Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: say, think, summon · To what, where: father, me, presence · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Queen, you), 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	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sire	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Sire	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thinking	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thinking	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 thinking	obj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 thinking	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 thinking	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 thinking	aux
15	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 summon	mark
17	to	to	PART	_	18 summon	mark
18	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thinking	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 summon	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 summon	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 presence	det
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 summon	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 presence	nmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Queen	Queen's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
2	think speech: other	can · progressive	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
3	summon	to-infinitive	you not said here	me	the presence of a man	like this	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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