The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 55

"Oh, how can I thank you," cried the princess, "for telling me of such treasures!

Who acts: princess · What happens: thank, cry, tell · To what, where: you, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	11 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 cried	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 thank	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thank	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 thank	nsubj
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Oh	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 telling	mark
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 treasures	case
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 treasures	amod
21	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 telling	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	can	the princess = princess	you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the princess			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund	the princess not said here	the princess = princess	of such treasures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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