The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 97

So the first time the Sultana Fatima saw her son she told him she had heard of his refusal to marry, adding how distressed she felt that he should have vexed his father so much.

Who acts: Sultana Fatima, Fatima, son · What happens: see, tell, hear, marry, add, distress · To what, where: son, father · 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 (Sultana Fatima, Fatima, son), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fatima	det
6	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fatima	compound
7	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 refusal	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 refusal	nmod:poss
19	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 marry	mark
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 heard	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 adding	punct
23	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 marry	advcl
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 distressed	advmod
25	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 felt	advcl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 adding	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 vexed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 vexed	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 vexed	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 vexed	aux
32	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 felt	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vexed	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	32 vexed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Sultana Fatima	Fatima's son		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	Fatima		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	hear	past · perfect	Fatima				of son's refusal	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of refusal=Stimulus
4	marry	to-infinitive	Fatima not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	add speech: assert	gerund	Fatima not said here					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	distress	participle	Fatima not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	feel	past	Fatima					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	vex	should · perfect	son	son's father				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
9	refuse		son					nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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