The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 69

"Oh, if only the Sultan had had sons like that!" they murmured, "they look so distinguished and are about the same age that his sons would have been!"

Who acts: Sultan, sons · What happens: have, murmur, look, be · To what, where: sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, sons), 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	_	9 had	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 had	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 Sultan	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 murmured	advcl
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 sons	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 murmured	nsubj
16	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	nsubj
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 murmured	ccomp
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 distinguished	advmod
22	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 look	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 age	cc
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 age	cop
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 age	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 age	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 age	amod
28	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 been	obj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sons	nmod:poss
31	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 been	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 been	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 been	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 age	acl:relcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 age	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	the Sultan	sons		like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	murmur speech: other	past	sons = son				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look in a quote	present	sons = son			distinguished property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	sons = son not said here		about the same age		tree rules

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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