The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 11

“But I tell you he was with me only a few hours ago,” cried the Sultan angrily.

Who acts: Sultan, husband · What happens: tell, be, cry · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, husband), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 me	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 me	cop
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
10	only	only	ADV	_	13 hours	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hours	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hours	amod
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 me	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sultan	det
19	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cried	nsubj
20	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	17 cried	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan	you		tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	husband		with the Sultan = sultan; ago property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the Sultan		angrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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