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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 3

I told my story, concealing nothing, and his surprise and delight were so great that he ordered my adventures to be written in letters of gold and laid up in the archives of his kingdom.

Who acts: I, surprise, king, my · What happens: tell, conceal, be, order, write, lay up · To what, where: story, nothing, adventures, letters, archives, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, surprise, king, 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

nsubjnmod:possobjpunctadvclobjpunctccnmod:possnsubjccconjcopadvmodparataxismarknsubjadvclnmod:possobjmarkaux:passadvclcaseoblcasenmodccconjcompound:prtcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootIPRONtoldVERBmyPRONstoryNOUN,PUNCTconcealingVERBnothingPRON,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONsurpriseNOUNandCCONJdelightNOUNwereAUXsoADVgreatADJthatSCONJhePRONorderedVERBmyPRONadventuresNOUNtoPARTbeAUXwrittenVERBinADPlettersNOUNofADPgoldNOUNandCCONJlaidVERBupADPinADPtheDETarchivesNOUNofADPhisPRONkingdomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 toldnsubj
2toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 storynmod:poss
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing2 toldobj
5,,PUNCT_6 concealingpunct
6concealingconcealVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 toldadvcl
7nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg6 concealingobj
8,,PUNCT_16 greatpunct
9andandCCONJ_16 greatcc
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 surprisenmod:poss
11surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing16 greatnsubj
12andandCCONJ_13 delightcc
13delightdelightNOUNNumber=Sing11 surpriseconj
14werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 greatcop
15sosoADV_16 greatadvmod
16greatgreatADJDegree=Pos2 toldparataxis
17thatthatSCONJ_19 orderedmark
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 orderednsubj
19orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 greatadvcl
20mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 adventuresnmod:poss
21adventuresadventureNOUNNumber=Plur19 orderedobj
22totoPART_24 writtenmark
23bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf24 writtenaux:pass
24writtenwriteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 orderedadvcl
25ininADP_26 letterscase
26lettersletterNOUNNumber=Plur24 writtenobl
27ofofADP_28 goldcase
28goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing26 lettersnmod
29andandCCONJ_30 laidcc
30laidlayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 writtenconj
31upupADP_30 laidcompound:prt
32ininADP_34 archivescase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 archivesdet
34archivesarchiveNOUNNumber=Plur30 laidobl
35ofofADP_37 kingdomcase
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 kingdomnmod:poss
37kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing34 archivesnmod
38..PUNCT_2 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastImy storyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2concealgerundI not said herenothingvn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3ispastking's surprise and delightgreat propertytree rules
4orderpastkingmy adventuresvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
5writeto-infinitive · passiveking not said hereletters of goldvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in letter=Destination
6lay upparticipleking not said herethe archives of king's kingdomvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in archive=Destination
7surprisekingnom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
8adventuremynom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
9lettergoldnom letter «communication transitive»: of=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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