The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 69

"When I said that it was nothing," said the princess, moved by his words, "I meant that it was nothing that affected you, although I admit that it is certainly of some importance to me.

Who acts: I, confidence, princess, prince · What happens: say, be, move, mean, affect, admit · To what, where: nothing, princess, you · 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 (I, confidence, princess, prince), 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 said	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 said	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 nothing	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nothing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nothing	cop
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
11	said	say	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 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 moved	punct
15	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 princess	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 words	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 words	nmod:poss
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moved	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 meant	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 meant	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 meant	nsubj
22	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 nothing	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 nothing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nothing	cop
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 meant	xcomp
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 affected	nsubj
28	affected	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 nothing	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 affected	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 admit	punct
31	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 admit	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 admit	nsubj
33	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 meant	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 importance	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 importance	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 importance	cop
37	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	40 importance	advmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 importance	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 importance	det
40	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 admit	ccomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 importance	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	confidence	nothing			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	move	participle		the princess not said here		by prince's words	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by word=Trajectory
5	mean in a quote	past	the princess = princess				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	is a not said to happen, in a quote	past	confidence	nothing			tree rules
7	affect in a quote	past		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
8	admit speech: other in a quote	present	the princess = princess				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	is in a quote	present	confidence		the princess = princess	of some importance; certainly property	tree rules
10	word		prince				nom word «communication 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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