The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 48

"Sire," replied the bird, before either the princes or the princess could speak, "surely your Highness cannot be so surprised at beholding a cucumber stuffed with pearls, when you believed without any difficulty that the Sultana had presented you, instead of children, with a dog, a cat, and a log of wood."

Who acts: Sire, princes, Highness, you · What happens: reply, speak, not be, behold, stuff, believe · To what, where: bird, cucumber, Sultana · 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 (Sire, princes, Highness, you), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 speak	mark
10	either	either	CCONJ	_	12 princes	cc:preconj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princes	det
12	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 speak	nsubj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 princess	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 princes	conj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 surprised	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 surprised	punct
20	surely	surely	ADV	_	27 surprised	advmod
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Highness	nmod:poss
22	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 surprised	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 surprised	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 surprised	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 surprised	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 surprised	advmod
27	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 speak	conj
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	29 beholding	mark
29	beholding	behold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 surprised	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cucumber	det
31	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 beholding	obj
32	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cucumber	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 pearls	case
34	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stuffed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 believed	punct
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 believed	advmod
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 believed	nsubj
38	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	conj
39	without	without	ADP	_	41 difficulty	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 difficulty	det
41	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 believed	obl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 presented	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Sultana	det
44	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 presented	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 presented	aux
46	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 believed	ccomp
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 presented	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 children	punct
49	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	51 children	case
50	of	of	ADP	_	49 instead	fixed
51	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 presented	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dog	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 dog	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 dog	det
55	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 presented	parataxis
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cat	punct
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 cat	det
58	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 dog	conj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 log	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 log	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 log	det
62	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	parataxis
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 wood	case
64	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 log	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	62 log	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	62 log	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Sire	the bird		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	could	the princes or the princess			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	can	your Highness		surely, surprised property	tree rules
4	behold in a quote	gerund	your Highness not said here	a cucumber		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cucumber=Stimulus
5	stuff in a quote	participle		a cucumber not said here	with pearls	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme
6	believe in a quote	past	you		without any difficulty	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	present in a quote	past · perfect · passive		the Sultana	instead children	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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