The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 3

"I never saw them before," she answered, "and you came in such a hurry that you may have picked them up on the road without knowing it."

Who acts: liar, you · What happens: not see, answer, come, pick up, know · To what, where: shoes, hurry, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liar, 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	_	4 saw	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	before	before	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 hurry	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 hurry	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hurry	det
19	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 picked	nsubj:pass
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 picked	nsubj:pass
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 picked	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 picked	aux
24	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hurry	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 picked	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 picked	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 road	det
29	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picked	obl
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 knowing	mark
31	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 knowing	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see in a quote	past	liar	shoes = shoe		before property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	liar				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come in a quote	past	you		such hurry		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location
4	pick up in a quote	may · perfect · passive		such hurry	the road		tree rules
5	know in a quote	gerund	you not said here	road			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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