The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 67

So she began by saying all sorts of absurdities, and using all kinds of strange gestures, while the Sultan stood watching her with sorrow and surprise.

Who acts: announcement, Sultan · What happens: begin, say, use, stand, watch, sort · To what, where: sorts, kinds, announcement, absurdities · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (announcement, Sultan), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 began	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 saying	mark
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 sorts	det
7	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saying	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 absurdities	case
9	absurdities	absurdity	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sorts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 using	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 using	cc
12	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 began	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 kinds	det
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 using	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 gestures	case
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gestures	amod
17	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 kinds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 stood	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sultan	det
21	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
23	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stood	xcomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 watching	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 sorrow	case
26	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watching	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 surprise	cc
28	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorrow	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	announcement			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	announcement not said here	all sorts of absurdities		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sort=Topic
3	use	gerund	announcement not said here	all kinds of strange gestures		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
4	stand	past	the Sultan			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	watch	gerund	the Sultan not said here	announcement	with sorrow and surprise	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	sort			absurdities		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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