The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 92

“True, O Sultan, but I have neither shroud to wrap her in, nor money to bury her with,” went on Abu Nowas, in no wise abashed by the way the Sultan had received his news.

Who acts: Sultan, shroud, True · What happens: have, wrap in, bury, go, abash, receive · To what, where: shroud, wife, Abu, news · 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 (Sultan, shroud, True), 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	_	2 True	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Sultan	punct
4	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 Sultan	case
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 True	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 True	parataxis
10	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	11 shroud	det
11	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 wrap	mark
13	wrap	wrap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wrap	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	13 wrap	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 money	punct
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 money	cc
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrap	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bury	mark
20	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 money	acl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bury	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	20 bury	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 Abu	case
27	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
28	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Abu	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wise	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 wise	case
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 wise	det
32	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 went	parataxis
33	abashed	abash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 wise	csubj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 way	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 way	det
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 abashed	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sultan	det
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 received	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 received	aux
40	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 way	acl:relcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 news	nmod:poss
42	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 received	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan	neither shroud				tree rules
2	wrap in in a quote	to-infinitive	neither shroud not said here		wife		money obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination
3	bury in a quote	to-infinitive	neither shroud not said here	wife				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	go	past	True			Abu		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on abu=Location
5	abash	participle					by the way	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	receive	past · perfect	the Sultan	Sultan's news				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme

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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