The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 87

The youth and beauty of the princess at once awoke a feeling to which his heart had as yet been a stranger, and he could not restrain his delight.

Who acts: youth, heart · What happens: awake, have, be, not restrain, delight · To what, where: feeling, stranger, delight

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 (youth, heart), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awoke	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beauty	cc
4	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youth	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 princess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beauty	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 awoke	obl
10	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feeling	det
12	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awoke	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	obl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heart	nmod:poss
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feeling	parataxis
18	as	as	ADV	_	22 stranger	advmod
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 stranger	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 stranger	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stranger	det
22	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 restrain	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 restrain	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 restrain	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 restrain	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 restrain	advmod
28	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 awoke	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 delight	nmod:poss
30	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 restrain	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the youth and beauty of the princess	a feeling			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feeling=Theme
2	have	past	youth's heart			to a feeling	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	participle		a stranger	yet		tree rules
4	not restrain	could	heart	youth's delight			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer delight=Eventuality
5	delight		youth				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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