The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 39

But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could never have imagined anything half so surprising. "

Who acts: prince, princess · What happens: come, enchant, declare, not imagine · To what, where: anything half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, princess), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 declared	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 declared	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 horse	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 horse	amod
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 declared	nsubj
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 imagined	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 imagined	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 imagined	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 imagined	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 imagined	aux
18	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 declared	ccomp
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 half	compound
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 imagined	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 surprising	advmod
22	surprising	surprising	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 imagined	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	prince		to the enchanted horse	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location
2	enchant	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	declare speech: other	past	the princess			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not imagine	could · perfect	princess	anything half		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot half=Theme

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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