The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 59

"I was once," replied she, "the wife of an honest merchant, and that old woman, whose wickedness I did not know, used occasionally to visit me. '

Who acts: I · What happens: be, reply, not know, use, visit · To what, where: lady, wickedness, me · 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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 once	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 once	cop
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 replied	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
15	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 merchant	amod
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 woman	cc
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wickedness	punct
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 wickedness	nmod:poss
24	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 woman	appos
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 know	advmod
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wickedness	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 used	punct
30	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 woman	conj
31	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	_	30 used	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 visit	mark
33	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 used	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 visit	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	I		once property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past		lady	the wife of a honest merchant obl; that old woman obl	tree rules
3	not know in a quote	past · do-support	I	that old woman's wickedness not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wickedness=Stimulus
4	use in a quote	participle			occasionally property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	visit in a quote	to-infinitive		me		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-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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