The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 55

She flung herself on her knees to implore mercy, but he cut her in four pieces.

Who acts: slave, crone · What happens: fling, implore, cut · To what, where: slave, knees, mercy, four pieces

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 (slave, crone), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flung	nsubj
2	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flung	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 knees	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knees	nmod:poss
6	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flung	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 implore	mark
8	implore	implore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flung	advcl
9	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 implore	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flung	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pieces	case
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 pieces	nummod
17	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cut	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fling	past	slave	slave	slave's knees	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on knee=Destination
2	implore	to-infinitive	slave not said here	mercy		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercy=Recipient
3	cut	past	crone	slave	four pieces	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product

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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