The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 107

‘Not Abu Nowas, it is his wife,’ he will reply, and they will quarrel over it, and all the time we shall be sitting here enjoying ourselves.

Who acts: palace, Abu, tears, we · What happens: be, reply, quarrel, sit, enjoy · To what, where: wife, ourselves

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, Abu, tears, we), 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	_	14 reply	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 Abu	advmod
3	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 reply	nsubj
4	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Abu	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wife	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wife	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Abu	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 wife	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reply	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reply	aux
14	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quarrel	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 quarrel	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quarrel	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 quarrel	aux
19	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reply	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quarrel	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sitting	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sitting	cc
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 time	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sitting	obl:unmarked
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sitting	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 sitting	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sitting	aux
30	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reply	conj
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sitting	advmod
32	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sitting	advcl
33	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 enjoying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	palace	Abu's wife				tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	future	Abu					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	quarrel	future	tears = tear				over palace	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme
4	sit	shall · progressive	we		here	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	enjoy	gerund	we not said here	ourselves				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ourselves=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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