The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 49

"It is certainly most surprising," cried he, when he had heard it all, "but I should like to examine the body."

Who acts: tale, barber, Sultan · What happens: be, cry, hear, like, examine · To what, where: barber, tale, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tale, barber, Sultan), 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	_	6 surprising	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 surprising	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 surprising	cop
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 surprising	advmod
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 surprising	advmod
6	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprising	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 cried	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 it	det
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 surprising	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 like	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 like	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 like	aux
23	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 surprising	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 examine	mark
25	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 like	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 body	det
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 examine	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprising	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 surprising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	tale		certainly, surprising property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	tale not said here	barber		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	barber	tale		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	like in a quote	should	the Sultan = sultan			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	examine not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Sultan = sultan not said here	the body		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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