The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 68

Her mother will come to seek me, and, kissing my hands with respect, will say, "My lord" (for she could not dare to risk my anger by using the familiar title of "son-in-law"), "My lord, do not, I implore you, refuse to look upon my daughter or to approach her.

Who acts: mother, kissing, my · What happens: come, seek, kiss, say, not dare, not risk · To what, where: me, hands, lord, anger, familiar title, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, kissing, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 seek	mark
6	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seek	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 say	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 say	csubj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kissing	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 respect	case
15	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kissing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kissing	punct
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lord	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 lord	punct
21	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lord	nmod:poss
22	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 lord	punct
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	29 dare	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 dare	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 dare	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 dare	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 dare	advmod
29	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 risk	mark
31	risk	risk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 dare	xcomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 anger	nmod:poss
33	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 risk	obj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 using	mark
35	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 risk	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 title	det
37	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 title	amod
38	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 using	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	45 law	case
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 law	punct
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 law	nsubj
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 law	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 law	case
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 in	punct
45	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 title	nmod
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 law	punct
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 dare	punct
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lord	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 lord	punct
50	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 lord	nmod:poss
51	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dare	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 do	punct
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 dare	conj
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 do	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 implore	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 implore	nsubj
57	implore	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dare	parataxis
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 implore	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 refuse	punct
60	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	57 implore	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 look	mark
62	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 refuse	xcomp
63	upon	upon	ADP	_	65 daughter	case
64	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 daughter	nmod:poss
65	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 look	obl
66	or	or	CCONJ	_	68 approach	cc
67	to	to	PART	_	68 approach	mark
68	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 look	conj
69	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 approach	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	future	wife's mother				tree rules
2	seek	to-infinitive	wife's mother not said here	me			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	kiss	gerund		my hands		with respect	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer with respect=Instrument
4	say speech: assert	future	kissing	My lord			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lord=Topic
5	not dare	could	mother	My lord			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not risk	to-infinitive	mother not said here	my anger			vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Pivot
7	use	gerund	mother not said here	the familiar title of law			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient
8	not do in a quote	infinitive	mother not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	implore in a quote	present	kissing		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
10	refuse in a quote	infinitive	kissing not said here				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	not look in a quote	to-infinitive	kissing not said here			upon my daughter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon daughter=Theme
12	approach in a quote	to-infinitive	kissing not said here	mother			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
13	anger		my				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
14	title			law			nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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