The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 39

In fact, he pressed her so persistingly that the princess at length lost her temper and quite forgot the respect due to her father. "

Who acts: China, princess, Fatima · What happens: press, lose, forget, temper · To what, where: Fatima, fact, temper, respect

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, princess, Fatima), 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	5 pressed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pressed	nsubj
5	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pressed	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 persistingly	advmod
8	persistingly	persistingly	ADV	_	5 pressed	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 length	case
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 princess	nmod
14	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 temper	nmod:poss
16	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 forgot	cc
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 forgot	advmod
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 respect	det
21	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forgot	obj
22	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 father	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 due	fixed
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 forgot	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pressed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	press	past	China	Fatima	fact	persistingly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
2	lose	past	the princess at length	Fatima's temper			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality
3	forget	past	the princess at length not said here	the respect		due Fatima's father	tree rules
4	temper		Fatima				nom temper «feeling 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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