The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 77
"Cucumbers stuffed with pearls!" exclaimed the princess. "
Who acts: princess · What happens: stuff, exclaim · To what, where: Cucumbers · 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 (princess), 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 | _ | 2 Cucumbers | punct |
| 2 | Cucumbers | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Cucumbers | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pearls | case |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stuffed | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cucumbers | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cucumbers | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff in a quote | participle | Cucumbers not said here | with pearls | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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