The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 13

Suddenly Zobeida turned round, and seeing their excitement she said, "What is the matter--what are you all discussing so earnestly?"

Who acts: Zobeida, question, matter · What happens: turn round, see, say, be, discuss, excite · To what, where: excitement, matter, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zobeida, question, matter), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
2	Zobeida	Zobeida	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 said	csubj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 excitement	nmod:poss
9	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 matter	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 matter	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 matter	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 matter	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 you	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 you	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 you	cop
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 matter	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 you	nmod:unmarked
23	discussing	discuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 earnestly	advmod
25	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	23 discussing	advmod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	Zobeida		round, suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund		Zobeida's excitement		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer excitement=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	past	question			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		the matter		tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	the matter	you	all nmod:unmarked	tree rules
6	discuss speech: other in a quote	gerund	question not said here		earnestly property	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	excite		Zobeida			nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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