The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 130

As he had never seen any like them he admired them very much, and he was very pleased to think how much money he would get for them.

Who acts: fisherman, any · What happens: not see, admire, be, think, get · To what, where: misgivings, much money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, any), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 seen	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 admired	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 any	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 admired	nsubj
10	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	ccomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 admired	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	10 admired	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pleased	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pleased	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pleased	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pleased	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 pleased	advmod
19	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seen	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 think	mark
21	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 pleased	advcl
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 money	amod
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	fisherman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	admire	past	any	misgivings = misgiving		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	is	past	fisherman		pleased property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	fisherman not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	get	would	fisherman	much money	for misgivings = misgiving	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for they=Source

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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