The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 110

“Poor Abu Nowas is dead!” said Subida when he entered the room.

Who acts: Poor Abu Nowas, Subida, Nowas · What happens: be, say, enter · To what, where: room · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Poor Abu Nowas, Subida, Nowas), 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	_	6 dead	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Nowas	amod
3	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Nowas	compound
4	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dead	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Subida	Subida	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 entered	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 entered	nsubj
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Poor Abu Nowas		dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	Subida			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	enter	past	Nowas	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination

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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