The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 106

It threw itself at my feet, with its head on the ground, as if it wished to excite my pity, and to beg me not to take away its life.

Who acts: steward, my · What happens: throw, wish, excite, beg, not take away, pity · To what, where: steward, feet, pity, me, life

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steward, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 head	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl:unmarked
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 head	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wished	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 wished	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 wished	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wished	nsubj
18	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 excite	mark
20	excite	excite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wished	xcomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pity	nmod:poss
22	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 excite	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 beg	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 beg	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 beg	mark
26	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 excite	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 beg	obj
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 take	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 take	mark
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 beg	xcomp
31	away	away	ADP	_	30 take	compound:prt
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 life	nmod:poss
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	steward	steward		my feet	with steward's head on the ground	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme at foot=Destination
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	past	steward					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	excite not said to happen	to-infinitive	steward not said here	my pity				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pity=Experiencer
4	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	steward not said here		me			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	steward not said here	steward's life				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
6	pity		my					nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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