The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 45

"Why, yes," replied the king smiling, in what I could but consider a very heartless manner, "they are no exception to the rule if they have married in the country."

Who acts: king, foreigners · What happens: reply, smile, consider, be, marry · To what, where: heartless manner, exception, foreigners, country · 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 (king, foreigners), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 replied	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 replied	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 yes	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 king	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 replied	parataxis
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 could	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 consider	cc
17	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 what	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 manner	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 heartless	advmod
20	heartless	heartless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 manner	amod
21	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 consider	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 exception	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 exception	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 exception	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 exception	cop
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 exception	det
27	exception	exception	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 what	nsubj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 rule	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rule	det
30	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 exception	nmod
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 married	mark
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 married	nsubj:pass
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 married	aux
34	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 exception	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 country	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 country	det
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 married	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the king				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	smile	gerund	the king not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	consider	infinitive	the king not said here	a heartless manner			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent manner=Attribute
4	is a in a quote	present	foreigners = foreigner	no exception		to the rule	tree rules
5	marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · perfect · passive		foreigners = foreigner	the country		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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