The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 41

Ah! my beloved brother," cried the princess in horror, throwing the knife from her, "I shall never see you again, and it is I who have killed you.

Who acts: beloved brother, I, knife · What happens: cry, throw, not see, be, kill · To what, where: princess, horror, knife, you, I

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 (beloved brother, I, knife), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 brother	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 horror	case
12	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throwing	punct
14	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 cried	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 knife	det
16	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throwing	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 throwing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 see	advmod
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 throwing	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 see	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 killed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 killed	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 I	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 I	cop
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 killed	nsubj:pass
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 killed	nsubj:pass
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 killed	aux
34	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cried	conj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 killed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	my beloved brother	the princess	horror			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
2	throw in a quote	gerund	my beloved brother not said here	the knife			from princess	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from she=Initial_Location
3	not see	shall	I	you		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	is a	present	knife	I				tree rules
5	kill	present · perfect · passive		I				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer you=Result

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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