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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 24

"This,"--continued the barber,--"is the tale I related to the Caliph, who, when I had finished, burst into fits of laughter.

Who acts: This, passing caravan, Caliph · What happens: continue, be, relate, finish, burst · To what, where: barber, tale, Caliph, fits

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, passing caravan, Caliph), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctpunctcopdetapposnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctnsubjpunctadvmodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctacl:relclcaseoblcasenmodpunctroot"PUNCTThisPRON,PUNCT"PUNCT--PUNCTcontinuedVERBtheDETbarberNOUN,PUNCT--PUNCT"PUNCTisAUXtheDETtaleNOUNIPRONrelatedVERBtoADPtheDETCaliphPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTwhenADVIPRONhadAUXfinishedVERB,PUNCTburstVERBintoADPfitsNOUNofADPlaughterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Thispunct
2ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem6 continuednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Thispunct
4""PUNCT_2 Thispunct
5----PUNCT_2 Thispunct
6continuedcontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 barberdet
8barberbarberNOUNNumber=Sing6 continuedobj
9,,PUNCT_14 talepunct
10----PUNCT_14 talepunct
11""PUNCT_14 talepunct
12isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 talecop
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 taledet
14taletaleNOUNNumber=Sing8 barberappos
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 relatednsubj
16relatedrelateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 taleacl:relcl
17totoADP_19 Caliphcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Caliphdet
19CaliphCaliphPROPNNumber=Sing16 relatedobl
20,,PUNCT_26 finishedpunct
21whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 finishednsubj
22,,PUNCT_26 finishedpunct
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int26 finishedadvmod
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 finishednsubj
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 finishedaux
26finishedfinishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 Caliphacl:relcl
27,,PUNCT_28 burstpunct
28burstburstVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 Caliphacl:relcl
29intointoADP_30 fitscase
30fitsfitNOUNNumber=Plur28 burstobl
31ofofADP_32 laughtercase
32laughterlaughterNOUNNumber=Sing30 fitsnmod
33..PUNCT_6 continuedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1continuepastThisthe barbervn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barber=Theme
2is a in a quotepresentthe taletree rules
3relate in a quotepasta passing caravan = caravanthe tale not said herethe Caliphvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to caliph=Recipient
4finish in a quotepast · perfectthe Caliphvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5burst in a quoteparticiplethe Caliph not said herefits of laughtervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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