The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 80

"This cornelian must be something very precious," thought he, "or my wife would not wear it on her person with so much care."

Who acts: cornelian, wife · What happens: be, think, not wear · To what, where: something, Prince, cornelian · 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 (cornelian, wife), 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	_	6 something	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cornelian	det
3	cornelian	cornelian	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 something	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 something	cop
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 precious	advmod
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 something	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 wear	cc
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wear	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wear	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wear	advmod
20	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wear	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 person	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 person	nmod:poss
24	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wear	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 care	case
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 care	amod
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wear	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	this cornelian	something		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past		Prince		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	not wear in a quote	would	my wife	cornelian	on wife's person; with much care	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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