The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 25

Kissing her hand, the beautiful slave said: "Madam, I do not know how you find me in this dress that you have had prepared for me; your women assure me that it suits me so well that they hardly knew me.

Who acts: beautiful slave, you, dress, women, slave · What happens: kiss, say, not know, find, have, prepare · To what, where: hand, Madam, beautiful slave, dress · 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 (beautiful slave, you, dress, women), 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	Kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kissing	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kissing	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 slave	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slave	amod
7	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Madam	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Madam	punct
11	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 find	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
19	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 find	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 dress	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 dress	det
23	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 dress	acl:relcl
28	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 had	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 prepared	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 assure	punct
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 women	nmod:poss
33	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 assure	nsubj
34	assure	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 assure	iobj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 suits	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 suits	nsubj
38	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 assure	advcl
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 suits	obj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 well	advmod
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 suits	advmod
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 knew	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 knew	nsubj
44	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	45 knew	advmod
45	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 suits	advcl
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 knew	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund	the beautiful slave not said here	Noureddin's hand				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the beautiful slave	Madam				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the beautiful slave = slave					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find in a quote	present	you	the beautiful slave = slave		this dress		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic
5	have in a quote	present · perfect	you	this dress				tree rules
6	prepare in a quote	participle	this dress not said here				for the beautiful slave = slave	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for i=Beneficiary
7	assure in a quote	present	your women		the beautiful slave = slave			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
8	suit in a quote	present	slave	the beautiful slave = slave			well property	tree rules
9	know in a quote	past	women = woman	the beautiful slave = slave			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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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