The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 53

"Alas!" she said "I am the innocent cause of our sorrows," and told him of the exchange of the lamp.

Who acts: princess, our · What happens: say, be, tell, sorrow, exchange · To what, where: innocent cause, Aladdin, lamp · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, our), 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 Alas	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cause	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cause	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cause	det
11	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cause	amod
12	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sorrows	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sorrows	nmod:poss
15	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cause	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sorrows	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 cause	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 exchange	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 exchange	det
23	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lamp	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 lamp	det
26	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exchange	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	princess	the innocent cause		of our sorrows	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	princess not said here		Aladdin	of the exchange of the lamp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	sorrow in a quote		our				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
5	exchange			the lamp			nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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