The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 31

The eunuch, who had expressed many contemptuous doubts as they came along of the newcomer's powers, was much surprised and said:

Who acts: eunuch, doubts · What happens: express, come along, be, say · To what, where: many contemptuous doubts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eunuch, doubts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eunuch	det
2	eunuch	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 surprised	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 expressed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 expressed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	aux
6	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 eunuch	acl:relcl
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doubts	amod
8	contemptuous	contemptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doubts	amod
9	doubts	doubt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 expressed	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 expressed	advcl
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 powers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 newcomer	det
16	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 powers	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 newcomer	case
18	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eunuch	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	cop
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 surprised	advmod
22	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 surprised	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	express	past · perfect	the eunuch	many contemptuous doubts		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Theme
2	come along	past	doubts = doubt		of the newcomer's powers; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of power=Initial_Location
3	is	past	the eunuch		surprised property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the eunuch not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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