The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 88

The prince was less surprised but no less firm than on the former occasion, and begged his father not to press the subject, adding that it was quite useless to urge him any longer.

Who acts: prince, it · What happens: be, beg, not press, add, urge · To what, where: father, subject, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	cop
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 surprised	advmod
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 firm	cc
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 less	advmod
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 firm	amod
9	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surprised	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	14 occasion	case
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 occasion	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 occasion	det
13	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 occasion	amod
14	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 firm	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 press	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 press	mark
22	press	press	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 subject	det
24	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 press	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 adding	punct
26	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 press	advcl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 useless	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 useless	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 useless	cop
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 useless	advmod
31	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 adding	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 urge	mark
33	urge	urge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 useless	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 urge	iobj
35	any	any	ADV	_	36 longer	advmod
36	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 urge	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prince			less, surprised property	tree rules
2	be		the prince not said here			than the former occasion	tree rules
3	beg speech: request	past	the prince not said here		prince's father		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not press not said to happen	to-infinitive		the subject			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	add speech: assert	gerund					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	it			useless property	tree rules
7	urge	to-infinitive			prince	long property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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