The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 31
In fact, neither trouble nor cost has been spared to make this retreat agreeable to the princess.
Who acts: this · What happens: spare, make, retreat · To what, where: fact, this
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 (this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spared | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 trouble | cc:preconj |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fact | nmod |
| 6 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 cost | cc |
| 7 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trouble | conj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spared | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 spared | aux:pass |
| 10 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 spared | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 make | xcomp |
| 15 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 retreat | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 agreeable | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | present · perfect · passive | fact trouble nor cost | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset» | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | retreat | infinitive | this not said here | agreeable property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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