The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 51

But his wife, who had twice his brains, suddenly exclaimed, "I have thought of something!

Who acts: I · What happens: exclaim, think · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	12 exclaimed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	aux
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 had	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brains	nmod:poss
9	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 exclaimed	nsubj:pass
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 exclaimed	advmod
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 exclaimed	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 something	case
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 thought	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past · perfect · passive		doctor's wife				suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	present · perfect	I					of something	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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