The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 8

"Prince!" he exclaimed, "how would it be possible for any man, much less a woman, to enter this room at night without walking over your slave on the threshold?

Who acts: Prince, question · What happens: exclaim, be, enter, walk · To what, where: room, slave · 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 (Prince, question), 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 Prince	punct
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 possible	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 possible	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 possible	advmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 possible	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 possible	nsubj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 possible	cop
13	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 exclaimed	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 man	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 possible	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 less	advmod
19	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 woman	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 enter	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 enter	mark
24	enter	enter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	parataxis
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 room	det
26	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enter	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 night	case
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enter	obl
29	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 walking	mark
30	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 enter	advcl
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 slave	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 slave	nmod:poss
33	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 walking	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 threshold	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 threshold	det
36	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 walking	obl
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Prince					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	would	question				for any man; possible property	tree rules
3	enter in a quote	to-infinitive		this room		night		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
4	walk in a quote	gerund			your slave		on the threshold	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over slave=Trajectory

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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