The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 6

"My wife," he exclaimed as he entered the room, "heaven has denied us any children, but here is one that has been sent in their place.

Who acts: wife, gardener · What happens: exclaim, enter, deny, be, send · To what, where: room, heaven, one, place · 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 (wife, gardener), 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	_	3 wife	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exclaimed	nsubj
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 entered	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 entered	nsubj
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exclaimed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 denied	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 denied	punct
15	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 denied	nsubj:pass
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 denied	aux
17	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 exclaimed	conj
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 denied	obj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 denied	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 one	advmod
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 exclaimed	obl
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sent	nsubj:pass
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 sent	aux:pass
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 one	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 place	nmod:poss
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	My wife			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	enter	past	gardener	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
3	deny in a quote	present · perfect · passive		heaven		tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present		one	here	tree rules
5	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive			children's place	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination

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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