The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 134

I wished her to have this form rather than a stranger one, so that we could see her in the family without repugnance.

Who acts: I, we · What happens: wish, have, see · To what, where: girl, form, family

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 (I, we), 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	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	advcl
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	11 stranger	cc
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stranger	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 stranger	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 see	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 family	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 family	det
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 repugnance	case
24	repugnance	repugnance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	I	girl			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
2	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	this form rather a stranger			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
3	see	could	we	girl	the family	without repugnance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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