The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 25

But they only answered that such questions were none of my business, and that I should do well to hold my peace.

Who acts: faces, such questions, my · What happens: answer, be, hold, pacify · To what, where: none, peace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faces, such questions, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 none	mark
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 questions	amod
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 none	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 none	cop
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	4 answered	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 business	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 business	nmod:poss
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 none	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hold	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hold	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 hold	aux
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 hold	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hold	mark
21	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 peace	nmod:poss
23	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hold	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	faces = face			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	such questions	none	of my business	tree rules
3	hold	to-infinitive · do-support	faces = face not said here	my peace	well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
4	pacify		my			nom peace «state transitive»: poss=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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