The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 68

“This poor Abu Nowas has lost his wife,” said he, when she entered the hall.

Who acts: Nowas, wife · What happens: lose, say, enter · To what, where: poor Abu Nowas, hall · 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 (Nowas, wife), 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	_	7 lost	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Nowas	nsubj
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Nowas	amod
4	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Nowas	compound
5	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj:pass
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
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	7 lost	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 entered	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 entered	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 entered	nsubj
17	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hall	det
19	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 entered	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect · passive		poor Abu Nowas	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Nowas		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	enter	past	wife	the hall	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=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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