The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

My wife, however, took a great dislike to both mother and child, which she concealed from me till too late.

Who acts: wife, child · What happens: take, conceal · To what, where: great dislike, mother

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 (wife, child), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dislike	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dislike	amod
9	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	both	both	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc:preconj
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 child	cc
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 concealed	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 concealed	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 concealed	nsubj
18	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 child	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 concealed	obl
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 late	mark
22	too	too	ADV	_	23 late	advmod
23	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 concealed	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	My wife	a great dislike	mother and child			however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dislike=Theme to mother=Destination
2	conceal	past	child					from me	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from i=Beneficiary

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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