The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 69

They were lost in wonder at my tale when it was interpreted to them, and said that adventures so surprising must be related to their king only by the man to whom they had happened.

Who acts: adventures, eyes, my · What happens: lose, interpret, say, be, happen, tell · To what, where: eyes, wonder, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adventures, eyes, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 wonder	case
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 tale	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tale	nmod:poss
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 interpreted	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 interpreted	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 interpreted	aux:pass
12	interpreted	interpret	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 interpreted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 related	mark
19	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 related	nsubj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 surprising	advmod
21	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 adventures	amod
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 related	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 related	cop
24	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 king	nmod:poss
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 related	obl
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 man	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 king	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 whom	case
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 man	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 happened	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 happened	aux
36	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 whom	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		eyes = eye		wonder	at my tale	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	interpret	past · passive		tale	eyes = eye			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to they=be'
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	must	adventures				to eyes's king by the man to eyes's king by the man to king; related property	tree rules
5	happen	past · perfect	eyes = eye					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell		my					nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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