The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 57

My friend," he cried, "you will be astonished to see me again, but I can find nowhere in this vase a thousand pieces of gold that I placed in the bottom under the olives.

Who acts: friend, you, I · What happens: cry, be, see, find, place · To what, where: me, vase, thousand pieces, bottom

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 (friend, you, I), 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 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 friend	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 astonished	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 astonished	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 astonished	cop
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 see	mark
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 astonished	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
22	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 find	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 vase	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 vase	det
25	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pieces	det
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 pieces	nummod
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 vase	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pieces	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 placed	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 placed	nsubj
33	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pieces	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 bottom	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bottom	det
36	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 placed	obl
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 olives	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 olives	det
39	olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 placed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	My friend					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	you				astonished property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	find	can	I		this vase a thousand pieces of gold		nowhere property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	place	past	I	a thousand pieces of gold	the bottom		under the olives	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme in bottom=Destination

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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