The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

I was about to fall on my knees and thank the princess but she did not give me time.

Who acts: I, princess · What happens: be, fall, thank, not give · To what, where: knees, princess, me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princess), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 about	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fall	mark
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 knees	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 knees	nmod:poss
8	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fall	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thank	cc
10	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thank	obj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 give	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 give	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 give	advmod
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				about property	tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	I not said here		my knees			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location
3	thank speech: thank	present	I not said here	the princess				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
4	not give	past · do-support	princess	me		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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