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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 79

"Sire," replied the Indian, "the rapidity of his movements took me so by surprise that he was out of hearing before I recovered my speech.

Who acts: Sire, rapidity, my · What happens: reply, take, be, recover, move, speak · To what, where: Indian, Sire, hearing, speech · 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 (Sire, rapidity, 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodparataxisiobjadvmodcaseoblmarknsubjcopcasecasenmodmarknsubjadvclnmod:possobjpunctroot"PUNCTSireNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETIndianADJ,PUNCT"PUNCTtheDETrapidityNOUNofADPhisPRONmovementsNOUNtookVERBmePRONsoADVbyADPsurpriseNOUNthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXoutADPofADPhearingNOUNbeforeSCONJIPRONrecoveredVERBmyPRONspeechNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
2SiresireNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
4""PUNCT_2 Sirepunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Indiandet
7IndianIndianADJDegree=Pos5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_11 rapiditypunct
9""PUNCT_11 rapiditypunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 rapiditydet
11rapidityrapidityNOUNNumber=Sing15 tooknsubj
12ofofADP_14 movementscase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 movementsnmod:poss
14movementsmovementNOUNNumber=Plur11 rapiditynmod
15tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 repliedparataxis
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 tookiobj
17sosoADV_19 surpriseadvmod
18bybyADP_19 surprisecase
19surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing15 tookobl
20thatthatSCONJ_25 hearingmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 hearingnsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 hearingcop
23outoutADP_25 hearingcase
24ofofADP_25 hearingcase
25hearinghearingNOUNNumber=Sing19 surprisenmod
26beforebeforeSCONJ_28 recoveredmark
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 recoverednsubj
28recoveredrecoverVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 tookadvcl
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 speechnmod:poss
30speechspeechNOUNNumber=Sing28 recoveredobj
31..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSirethe Indiantree rules
2take in a quotepastthe rapidity of rapidity's movementsSireby surprisevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3is in a quotepastSirehearingtree rules
4recover in a quotepastSiremy speechvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme
5move in a quoterapiditynom movement «act transitive»: poss=agent
6speak in a quotemynom speech «communication transitive»: 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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