The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 60

"I never guessed from his mere outside how valuable an animal he was," he remarked to the Indian, "and I am grateful to you for having shown me my error," said he. "

Who acts: monarch, king, my · What happens: not guess, remark, be, show, say, err · To what, where: mere, Indian, you, error, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, king, my), 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 guessed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 guessed	advmod
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 said	ccomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 mere	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mere	nmod:poss
7	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guessed	obl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	12 animal	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 valuable	advmod
10	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animal	amod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mere	nmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 was	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 animal	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remarked	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 remarked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 remarked	nsubj
18	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guessed	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Indian	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Indian	det
21	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 remarked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grateful	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 grateful	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grateful	cop
27	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guessed	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 grateful	obl
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 shown	mark
31	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 shown	aux
32	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 grateful	advcl
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 shown	obj
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 error	nmod:poss
35	error	error	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shown	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not guess in a quote	past	monarch			monarch's mere outside a valuable animal		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	remark speech: assert	participle	monarch		the Indian			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to indian=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	the king = king		you		grateful property	tree rules
4	show in a quote	gerund · perfect	the king = king not said here	my error	the king = king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient error=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	monarch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	err in a quote		my					nom error «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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