The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 107

I was even more surprised and touched at this action than I had been at the tears of the cow.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, touch · To what, where: action

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 surprised	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 touched	cc
7	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 surprised	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 action	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 action	det
10	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touched	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	17 tears	case
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tears	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tears	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tears	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 tears	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tears	det
17	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touched	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cow	det
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tears	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		surprised property	tree rules
2	touch	participle	I not said here	this action		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	I		than the tears; of the cow	tree rules

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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