The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 55

"But, sire," added Scheherazade, "however beautiful are the stories I have just told you, they cannot compare with the story of the Fisherman."

Who acts: sire, merchant · What happens: add, be, tell, not compare · To what, where: Scheherazade, beautiful stories, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, merchant), 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	_	7 added	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 added	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
4	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 added	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sire	punct
7	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 told	ccomp
8	Scheherazade	Scheherazade	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 added	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 added	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 beautiful	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stories	amod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stories	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stories	det
15	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 told	nsubj:pass
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 told	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 told	advmod
19	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 compare	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 compare	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 compare	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 compare	advmod
25	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 story	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 compare	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Fisherman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Fisherman	det
31	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 story	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 compare	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 compare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	sire	Scheherazade			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheherazade=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present		the beautiful stories			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the beautiful stories	you		tree rules
4	not compare in a quote	can	merchant			with the story of the Fisherman	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with story=Co-Patient

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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