The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 61

"Sire," replied the princess, "there are many out-of-the-way things it is as well to know, but one should never boast of them."

Who acts: Sire, many way things, thing, one · What happens: reply, be, not boast · To what, where: 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 (Sire, many way things, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 are	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 things	amod
13	out	out	ADP	_	19 way	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 out	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 way	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 of	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 the	punct
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 things	compound
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 are	nsubj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 know	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 know	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 know	mark
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 things	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 boast	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 boast	cc
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 boast	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 boast	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 boast	advmod
32	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	parataxis
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 boast	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 boast	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 boast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Sire	the princess			tree rules
2	does in a quote	present	many way things		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	thing			know, well property	tree rules
4	not boast speech: other in a quote	should	one			of spells = spell	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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