The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 60

Madam,' she said to me one day, 'we have a grand wedding at our house to-day.

Who acts: lady, we · What happens: say, have · To what, where: me, grand wedding, house · 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 (lady, we), 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	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Madam	punct
3	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Madam	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wedding	det
15	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wedding	amod
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 house	nmod:poss
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	lady		me		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
2	have	present	we	a grand wedding		our house to day			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient

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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