The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 13

My brother was not clever enough to detect that the old woman had merely refused the two pieces of money he had offered her in order to get more, but he inquired if she could procure him the pleasure of seeing this lady.

Who acts: brother, money, mind, woman, pleasure · What happens: not be, detect, refuse, offer, get, inquire · To what, where: old woman, mind, woman, more, pleasure, lady

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, money, mind, woman), 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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 detect	mark
8	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clever	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 refused	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 refused	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 refused	aux
14	merely	merely	ADV	_	15 refused	advmod
15	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 detect	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pieces	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 pieces	nummod
18	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 refused	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 money	case
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pieces	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 offered	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 offered	aux
23	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 money	acl:relcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 offered	iobj
25	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 get	mark
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 in	fixed
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 offered	advcl
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 get	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 inquired	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 inquired	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 inquired	nsubj
33	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	parataxis
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 procure	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 procure	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 procure	aux
37	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 inquired	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 procure	obj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pleasure	det
40	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 procure	obj
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 seeing	mark
42	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 pleasure	acl
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 lady	det
44	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seeing	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	My brother			clever, enough property	tree rules
2	detect	to-infinitive	My brother not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	refuse	past · perfect · passive		the old woman		merely property	tree rules
4	offer	past · perfect · passive	money not said here	mind	woman		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal she=Theme
5	get	to-infinitive	money not said here	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
6	inquire speech: other	past	mind				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	procure a condition, not said to happen	could	woman	the pleasure	mind		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary pleasure=Theme
8	see	gerund	the pleasure not said here	this lady			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=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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