The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 104

Next day the prince seized a favourable opportunity for making his request, and the king gladly granted it on condition that only one night should be spent out for fear of too great fatigue after such a long illness.

Who acts: prince, favourable opportunity, king · What happens: seize, make, grant, spend out, request, fear · To what, where: favourable opportunity, request, condition, great fatigue

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, favourable opportunity, king), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	nsubj
5	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 opportunity	det
7	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 opportunity	amod
8	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seized	obj
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 making	mark
10	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 opportunity	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 request	nmod:poss
12	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 making	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 granted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 granted	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 granted	nsubj
17	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	18 granted	advmod
18	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seized	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 granted	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 condition	case
21	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 granted	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 spent	obj
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 night	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 night	nummod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl:unmarked
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 spent	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 spent	aux:pass
28	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 condition	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 spent	compound:prt
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 fear	case
31	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 fatigue	case
33	too	too	ADV	_	34 great	advmod
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fatigue	amod
35	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fear	nmod
36	after	after	ADP	_	40 illness	case
37	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	40 illness	det:predet
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 illness	det
39	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 illness	amod
40	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the prince	a favourable opportunity		day		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
2	make	gerund	a favourable opportunity not said here	prince's request				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset request=Product
3	grant	past	the king	request	condition		gladly property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	spend out	should · passive		condition		after such long illness; night	for fear of great fatigue	vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: that=Asset for fear=Theme
5	request		prince					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	fear			great fatigue				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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