The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 100

"Why," cried she, "was it you my father wished me to marry?

Who acts: you · What happens: cry, be, wish, marry · To what, where: princess, admiration, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cried	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wished	nsubj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wished	nsubj
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wished	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 marry	mark
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wished	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		princess	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	past		admiration	tree rules
3	wish in a quote	past	you	me	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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