The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 50

"And what can they be?" cried the princess. "

Who acts: princess · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 be	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 be	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 cried	cop
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	the princess					cry property	tree rules

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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