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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 52

The king, his father, wanted to force him to marry, and on the prince's refusal to obey he has been imprisoned in an old tower where I have just seen him."

Who acts: king, Charming, I, prince · What happens: want, force, marry, obey, imprison, see · To what, where: refusal, Charming, old tower

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, Charming, I, prince), 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

detnsubjpunctnmod:possconjpunctmarkxcompobjmarkxcomppunctcccasedetnmod:posscaseoblmarkaclnsubj:passauxaux:passccompcasedetamodobladvmodnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclobjpunctpunctrootTheDETkingNOUN,PUNCThisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTwantedVERBtoPARTforceVERBhimPRONtoPARTmarryVERB,PUNCTandCCONJonADPtheDETprinceNOUN'sPARTrefusalNOUNtoPARTobeyVERBhePRONhasAUXbeenAUXimprisonedVERBinADPanDEToldADJtowerNOUNwhereADVIPRONhaveAUXjustADVseenVERBhimPRON.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing7 wantednsubj
3,,PUNCT_5 fatherpunct
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing2 kingconj
6,,PUNCT_2 kingpunct
7wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8totoPART_9 forcemark
9forceforceVERBVerbForm=Inf7 wantedxcomp
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 forceobj
11totoPART_12 marrymark
12marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf9 forcexcomp
13,,PUNCT_19 refusalpunct
14andandCCONJ_19 refusalcc
15ononADP_19 refusalcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 princedet
17princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing19 refusalnmod:poss
18's'sPART_17 princecase
19refusalrefusalNOUNNumber=Sing7 wantedobl
20totoPART_21 obeymark
21obeyobeyVERBVerbForm=Inf19 refusalacl
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 imprisonednsubj:pass
23hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 imprisonedaux
24beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 imprisonedaux:pass
25imprisonedimprisonVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 obeyccomp
26ininADP_29 towercase
27anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 towerdet
28oldoldADJDegree=Pos29 toweramod
29towertowerNOUNNumber=Sing25 imprisonedobl
30wherewhereADVPronType=Rel34 seenadvmod
31IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs34 seennsubj
32havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 seenaux
33justjustADV_34 seenadvmod
34seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part29 toweracl:relcl
35himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 seenobj
36..PUNCT_7 wantedpunct
37""PUNCT_7 wantedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wantpastthe king and Charming's fatherthe prince's refusalvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2force not said to happento-infinitivethe king and Charming's father not said hereCharmingvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3marry not said to happento-infinitiveCharming not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4obeyto-infinitivethe king and Charming's father not said heretree rules
5imprisonpresent · perfect · passiveCharminga old towervn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tower=Destination
6seepresent · perfectICharmingvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7refusethe princenom refusal «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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