The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 34

Oh, let him alone," sneered another, and this was the most trying of all, "he is such a beautiful young man; I am sure the bird and the cage must have been kept for him."

Who acts: you, this, imbecile, I · What happens: let, sneer, try, be, keep · To what, where: imbecile, another, beautiful young man, cage

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, imbecile, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sneered	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sneered	punct
8	sneered	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	advcl
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 sneered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trying	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trying	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 trying	nsubj:outer
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 trying	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trying	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 trying	advmod
16	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sneered	advcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 trying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 man	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 man	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trying	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 sure	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 let	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bird	det
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sure	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 kept	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cage	det
36	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kept	nsubj:pass
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 kept	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 kept	aux
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 kept	aux:pass
40	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sure	conj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kept	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	imbecile	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sneer in a quote	past	you not said here	another		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
3	try in a quote	past · progressive	this		of all	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	imbecile	such beautiful young man		tree rules
5	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
6	keep	must · perfect · passive		the cage	for imbecile	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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