The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 38

Unknown to himself he began to talk out loud, and a tailor, whose shop was next door to his, heard quite plainly what he was saying.

Who acts: Alnaschar, tailor · What happens: begin, talk out, be, hear, say · To what, where: next door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar, tailor), 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	Unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Unknown	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Unknown	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	_	7 talk	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 door	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 door	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tailor	det
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shop	punct
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 shop	nmod:poss
16	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tailor	conj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 door	cop
18	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 door	amod
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unknown	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 his	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 door	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 his	conj
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 plainly	advmod
25	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	23 heard	advmod
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 saying	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saying	aux
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 heard	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Unknown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Alnaschar			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	talk out	to-infinitive	Alnaschar not said here		loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	a tailor and a tailor and a tailor's shop's shop	next door		tree rules
4	hear	past	a tailor and a tailor and a tailor's shop's shop not said here		plainly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past · progressive	Alnaschar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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