The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 27

"Come, come!" said I, "surely it is not so bad as all that.

Who acts: I, life · What happens: come, say, not be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, life), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bad	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 bad	punct
11	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 bad	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bad	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bad	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 bad	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 bad	advmod
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 that	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 that	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 bad	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not is in a quote	present	life	as that; bad, surely property	tree rules

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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