The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 114

But the slave persisted so strongly that he knew nothing of any lady, and still less of how she got into the tower, that the prince lost all patience, and after giving him a good beating tied a rope round him and ducked him in the well till the unfortunate man cried out that he would tell everything.

Who acts: slave, prince, lady, unfortunate man · What happens: persist, know, get, lose, give, tie · To what, where: nothing, tower, patience, good beating, prince, rope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave, prince, lady, unfortunate man), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 persisted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 persisted	nsubj
4	persisted	persist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 strongly	advmod
6	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	4 persisted	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persisted	advcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 knew	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 lady	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 lady	det
13	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 less	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 less	cc
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 less	advmod
17	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 knew	conj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 got	mark
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 got	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 less	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 tower	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tower	det
24	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lost	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 lost	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 prince	det
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	nsubj
29	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 patience	det
31	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lost	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tied	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tied	cc
34	after	after	SCONJ	_	35 giving	mark
35	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 tied	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 giving	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 beating	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beating	amod
39	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 giving	obj
40	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 persisted	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 rope	det
42	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tied	obj
43	round	round	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tied	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ducked	cc
46	ducked	duck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 tied	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 ducked	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 well	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 well	det
50	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ducked	obl
51	till	till	SCONJ	_	55 cried	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 man	det
53	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 man	amod
54	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 cried	nsubj
55	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 ducked	advcl
56	out	out	ADP	_	55 cried	compound:prt
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	60 tell	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 tell	nsubj
59	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 tell	aux
60	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 cried	advcl
61	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	60 tell	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	persist	participle	the slave				strongly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	prince	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	get	past	lady			the tower		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tower=Destination
4	lose	past	the prince	all patience				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
5	give	gerund		a good beating	prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient beating=Theme
6	tie	past		a rope			round prince	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
7	duck	past		prince		the well		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
8	cry out speech: express	past	the unfortunate man					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	tell speech: assert	would	prince	everything				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=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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