The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 54

To his great surprise, he heard her saying to some one inside, "Rejoice my children; I am bringing you a nice fat youth."

Who acts: prince, lady · What happens: hear, say, rejoice, bring, surprise · To what, where: lady, one, children, nice fat youth, you · 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 (prince, lady), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 surprise	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 surprise	nmod:poss
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 surprise	amod
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 surprise	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 heard	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obl
13	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 saying	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Rejoice	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Rejoice	punct
16	Rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 children	nmod:poss
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 Rejoice	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bringing	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bringing	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bringing	aux
22	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 heard	advcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 bringing	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 youth	det
25	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 youth	amod
26	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 youth	compound
27	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bringing	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 bringing	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 bringing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	prince	lady		to prince's great surprise	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	lady not said here		some one	inside property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
3	rejoice in a quote	infinitive	lady not said here	my children			tree rules
4	bring in a quote	present · progressive	lady	a nice fat youth	you		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination youth=Theme
5	surprise		prince				nom surprise «feeling 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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