The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 60

Ah!" he cried, "so it is you, and not the rats and mice, who steal my butter.

Who acts: Scarcely, lantern, rats · What happens: cry, be, steal · To what, where: you, butter

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 (Scarcely, lantern, rats), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 you	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 you	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 you	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 you	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 you	cop
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 steal	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 steal	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 rats	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rats	det
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 steal	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mice	cc
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rats	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 steal	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 steal	nsubj
21	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 butter	nmod:poss
23	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 steal	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Scarcely		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	lantern	you	tree rules
3	steal	present	the rats and mice	my butter	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location butter=Theme

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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