The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 55

As will be imagined, these words took the Sultan by surprise, and he looked at me to see how I should take the statement of the princess.

Who acts: words, Sultan, I · What happens: imagine, take, look, see, state · To what, where: Sultan, statement, princess · 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 (words, Sultan, I), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 imagined	mark
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagined	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 imagined	aux:pass
4	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 imagined	punct
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sultan	det
10	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 surprise	case
12	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looked	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looked	nsubj
16	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 looked	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 looked	advcl
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 take	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 take	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 statement	det
26	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 princess	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 statement	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	future · passive	this words not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»
2	take	past	this words		the Sultan	by surprise	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sultan=Destination
3	look	past	Sultan			at me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	Sultan not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	take	should	I	the statement of the princess			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statement=Theme
6	state			the princess			nom statement «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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