The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 45

"My sister," he said, "why should you think the old woman was deceiving you about these treasures, and what would have been her object in doing so!

Who acts: brother, you, old woman, object · What happens: say, think, deceive, be, do · To what, where: you, object · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brother, you, old woman, object), 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 sister	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 think	advmod
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 deceiving	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 deceiving	aux
18	deceiving	deceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 think	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 deceiving	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 treasures	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 treasures	det
22	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 deceiving	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 object	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 object	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 object	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 object	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 object	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 object	cop
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 object	nmod:poss
30	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 doing	mark
32	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 object	acl
33	so	so	ADV	_	32 doing	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	think speech: other in a quote	should	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	deceive in a quote	past · progressive	the old woman	you	about this treasures	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	is a in a quote	would · perfect		woman's object		tree rules
5	do in a quote	gerund	woman's object not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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