The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 47

A novelty, indeed!" cried he, "but I do not understand the reason of it; one cannot eat pearls!"

Who acts: novelty, I, one · What happens: cry, not understand, not eat · To what, where: reason, pearls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (novelty, I, one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 novelty	det
2	novelty	novelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 novelty	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 novelty	advmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 novelty	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 novelty	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 understand	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 understand	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 understand	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 understand	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 understand	advmod
15	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 understand	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reason	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
21	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 eat	advmod
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eat	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	a novelty		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not understand	present · do-support	I	the reason of reason	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
3	not eat	can	one	pearls	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Patient

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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