The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 66

"Ah!" cried the prince, "at this very moment my father is perhaps no more!" and he told his dream.

Who acts: prince, father · What happens: cry, not be, tell, dream · To what, where: dream · 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 (prince, father), 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 cried	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 moment	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 moment	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 moment	advmod
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 more	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 more	cop
17	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 moment	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 moment	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dream	nmod:poss
26	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the prince		moment		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	present	my father			more, perhaps property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	Prince	Prince's dream			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dream=Recipient
4	dream		Prince				nom dream «cognition 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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