The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 115

"But," he went on, "it seems to me odd that olives seven years old should be as good as that!

Who acts: Cadi, it, olives · What happens: go on, seem, be · To what, where: Cadi · 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 (Cadi, it, 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	_	6 went	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seems	nsubj
11	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 seems	obl
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seems	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 good	mark
16	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 good	nsubj
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 years	nummod
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 olives	conj
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 olives	amod
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 good	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seems	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 good	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go on	past	Cadi			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	seem in a quote	present	it	Cadi	odd property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	should	olives and seven years		as that; good 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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