The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 41

"Princess," exclaimed the nurse, "we cannot tell what you allude to without more explanation."

Who acts: nurse, we, you · What happens: exclaim, not tell, allude · To what, where: Princess · 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 (nurse, we, 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	_	2 Princess	punct
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nurse	det
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exclaimed	parataxis
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 allude	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 allude	nsubj
16	allude	allude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	16 allude	xcomp
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 explanation	case
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 explanation	amod
20	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allude	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the nurse	Princess		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	we			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	allude in a quote	present	you		without more explanation	tree rules

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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