The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 109

As soon as my wife heard me speak this she at once cried out, "What are you doing, husband?

Who acts: wife, you · What happens: hear, speak, cry out, do · To what, where: me, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife, you), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 speak	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 heard	mark
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 she	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 speak	ccomp
11	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 cried	mark
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 cried	advmod
13	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 speak	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 cried	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 doing	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 doing	obj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 husband	punct
22	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 doing	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	my wife	me		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here		soon property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry out speech: express	participle	you not said here		once property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do in a quote	present · progressive	you	husband		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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