The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 25

Approaching my brother with an angry countenance he exclaimed, "What business have you here?"

Who acts: business, door · What happens: approach, exclaim, business, have · To what, where: brother, angry countenance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (business, door), 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	Approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 have	advcl
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Approaching	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 countenance	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 countenance	det
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countenance	amod
7	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Approaching	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 countenance	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Approaching	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 business	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 business	nsubj
13	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	gerund	business not said here	my brother		with a angry countenance	vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brother=Theme with countenance=Instrument
2	exclaim speech: express	past	door	a angry countenance not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countenance=Topic
3	business in a quote						tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	business		here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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