The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 2

"Sir," was the answer, "for less than 10,000 gold pieces he will not let her go; he declares that, what with masters for her instruction, and for bodily exercises, not to speak of clothing and nourishment, he has already spent that sum upon her.

Who acts: Sir, price · What happens: be, not let, go, declare, not speak, spend · To what, where: answer, price, that, sum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, price), 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 Sir	punct
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answer	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
11	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	13 10,000	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 less	fixed
13	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 pieces	nummod
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pieces	compound
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 answer	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 let	advmod
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pieces	acl:relcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 declares	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 declares	nsubj
24	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answer	parataxis
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 declares	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 declares	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 masters	case
29	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 what	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 instruction	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 instruction	nmod:poss
32	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 masters	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 exercises	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 exercises	cc
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 exercises	case
36	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 exercises	amod
37	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 declares	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 speak	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 speak	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 speak	mark
41	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 exercises	acl:relcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 clothing	case
43	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 speak	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 nourishment	cc
45	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clothing	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 spent	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 spent	nsubj
48	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 spent	aux
49	already	already	ADV	_	50 spent	advmod
50	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 declares	parataxis
51	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 sum	det
52	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 spent	obj
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 her	case
54	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 spent	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	Sir	the answer	for 10,000 gold pieces	tree rules
2	not let in a quote	future	Sir	price		tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	price not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	declare speech: other in a quote	present	Sir	that	for bodily exercises	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Theme what=Attribute
5	not speak speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	Sir not said here		of clothing and nourishment	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	spend in a quote	present · perfect	Sir	that sum	upon price	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Asset
7	instruct in a quote		price			nom instruction «communication 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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