The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 33

The king has always received these embassies graciously, but says that he will never oblige the princess to marry against her will, and as she regularly declines each fresh proposal, the envoys have had to leave as disappointed in the result of their missions as they were gratified by their magnificent receptions."

Who acts: king, report, princess, envoys, magnificent receptions · What happens: receive, say, not oblige, marry, decline, have · To what, where: embassies, princess, fresh proposal, result, king, missions · 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 (king, report, princess, envoys), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 received	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 received	advmod
5	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 embassies	det
7	embassies	embassy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 received	obj
8	graciously	graciously	ADV	_	5 received	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 received	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 oblige	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 oblige	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 oblige	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 oblige	advmod
16	oblige	oblige	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 says	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 princess	det
18	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 oblige	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 marry	mark
20	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 oblige	advcl
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 will	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 will	nmod:poss
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 marry	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 declines	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 declines	nsubj
28	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	29 declines	advmod
29	declines	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 had	advcl
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 proposal	det
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 proposal	amod
32	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 declines	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 declines	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 envoys	det
35	envoys	envoy	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 had	aux
37	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 says	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 leave	mark
39	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 disappointed	advmod
41	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 leave	xcomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 result	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 result	det
44	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 leave	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 missions	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 missions	nmod:poss
47	missions	mission	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 result	nmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 gratified	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gratified	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 gratified	aux:pass
51	gratified	gratify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 leave	advcl
52	by	by	ADP	_	55 receptions	case
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 receptions	nmod:poss
54	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 receptions	amod
55	receptions	reception	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 gratified	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 received	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	present · perfect	the king	this embassies	always, graciously property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not oblige	future	report	the princess		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
4	marry	to-infinitive	report not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	decline	present	princess	each fresh proposal	regularly property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme
6	have	present · perfect	the envoys			tree rules
7	leave	to-infinitive	the envoys not said here		in the result of king's missions result; disappointed property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in result=Result
8	gratify	past · passive	king's magnificent receptions	king		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
9	result			king's missions		nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
10	receive		king			nom reception «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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