The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 111

“It is not Abu Nowas, but his wife who is dead,” answered the Sultan.

Who acts: room, wife, Abu · What happens: not be, be, answer · To what, where: Abu, Sultan · 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 (room, wife, Abu), 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	_	16 answered	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Abu	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Abu	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 Abu	advmod
5	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
6	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Abu	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 dead	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dead	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Abu	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sultan	det
18	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	room	Abu			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Abu's wife			dead property	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	Abu		the Sultan		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality

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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