The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 31

"After all you tell me," remarked the king, "I can no longer doubt your word; but how and whence the lady came, or why she should have stayed so short a time I cannot imagine.

Who acts: you, king, I, lady, your · What happens: tell, remark, doubt, come, stay, not imagine · To what, where: king, word, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, I, lady), 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 tell	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tell	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
9	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tell	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remarked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 doubt	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 doubt	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 doubt	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 doubt	aux
16	no	no	ADV	_	17 longer	advmod
17	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 doubt	advmod
18	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remarked	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 word	nmod:poss
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 doubt	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
25	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stayed	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 stayed	cc
31	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 stayed	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stayed	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 stayed	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 stayed	aux
35	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 came	conj
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 short	advmod
37	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 stayed	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 short	obl:unmarked
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 imagine	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 imagine	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 imagine	advmod
43	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 time	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you		the king = king	after all		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	remark speech: assert	participle	the king					vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	doubt in a quote	can	I	your word			long property	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	come in a quote	past	the lady				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stay in a quote	should · perfect	lady				short property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not imagine in a quote	can	I	a time not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
7	word in a quote		your					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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