The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 47

"But, Princess," expostulated the nurse, "we left you quite alone last night, and we have seen no one enter your room since then."

Who acts: Princess, we, one · What happens: expostulate, leave, see, enter · To what, where: nurse, you, one, room

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 (Princess, we, one), 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	_	7 expostulated	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 expostulated	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 expostulated	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Princess	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 expostulated	punct
7	expostulated	expostulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nurse	det
9	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expostulated	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 expostulated	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 left	iobj
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 alone	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	13 left	advmod
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seen	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 expostulated	advcl
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obj
26	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	xcomp
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 room	nmod:poss
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enter	obj
29	since	since	ADP	_	30 then	case
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 enter	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 expostulated	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 expostulated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	expostulate	past	Princess	the nurse				tree rules
2	leave in a quote	past	we		you	night	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	see in a quote	present · perfect	we	no one				tree rules
4	enter in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here	your room				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination

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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