The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 114

"What beautiful olives!" he said, "I should like to taste one," and pretending to put one in his mouth, he added, "they are really excellent!

Who acts: beautiful olives, Cadi, olives · What happens: olive, say, like, taste, pretend, put · To what, where: one, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful olives, Cadi, olives), 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	_	4 olives	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 olives	nsubj
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 olives	amod
4	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 olives	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 olives	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 like	aux
13	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 taste	mark
15	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 like	xcomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 taste	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 pretending	cc
20	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 put	mark
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pretending	xcomp
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 put	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 added	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 added	nsubj
29	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 excellent	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 excellent	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 excellent	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 excellent	cop
34	really	really	ADV	_	35 excellent	advmod
35	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 added	ccomp
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	olive in a quote						tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	beautiful olives				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like in a quote	should	beautiful olives = olive				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	taste not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	beautiful olives = olive not said here	one			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme one=Attribute
5	pretend	gerund					tree rules
6	put	to-infinitive		one	Cadi's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mouth=Destination
7	add speech: express	past	Cadi				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	olives = olive			excellent property	tree rules

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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