The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 65

They will then return to the charge, but this time it will take much longer before they persuade me even to look at my wife.

Who acts: women, time · What happens: return, take, persuade, look · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, time), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 return	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 return	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 return	advmod
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 charge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 charge	det
7	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	nsubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 return	conj
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 take	advmod
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 persuade	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 persuade	nsubj
19	persuade	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 take	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 persuade	obj
21	even	even	ADV	_	23 look	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 persuade	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	future	women = woman		then	to the charge result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to charge=Result
2	take	future	this time			long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	persuade	present	women = woman	me			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	look	to-infinitive				at my wife	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wife=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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