The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 38

He told her how important such an alliance would be, and pressed her to consent.

Who acts: China, alliance · What happens: tell, be, press, consent · To what, where: Fatima · 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 (China, alliance), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 important	advmod
5	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 alliance	det:predet
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 alliance	det
8	alliance	alliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 important	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 be	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 important	cop
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pressed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pressed	cc
13	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pressed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 consent	mark
16	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pressed	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	China		Fatima		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	infinitive	such alliance			important property	tree rules
3	press	past		Fatima			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
4	consent	to-infinitive					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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