The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 60

My daughter," exclaimed my guide, "I have brought you the famous dog belonging to the baker which can tell good money from bad.

Who acts: daughter, I, famous dog, baker · What happens: exclaim, bring, belong, tell · To what, where: guide, famous dog, you, good money, bad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, famous dog, baker), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 daughter	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 guide	nmod:poss
7	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 exclaimed	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dog	det
15	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dog	amod
16	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
17	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 dog	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 baker	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 baker	det
20	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 belonging	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tell	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 baker	acl:relcl
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 money	amod
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tell	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 bad	case
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tell	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	My daughter	my guide				tree rules
2	bring	present · perfect	I	the famous dog	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination dog=Theme
3	belong	gerund	the famous dog not said here				to the baker	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	can	the baker	good money		bad		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient

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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