The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 24

She felt that it was equally impossible to confess that she had deceived him, or to refuse the marriage on which he had set his heart; a refusal which might turn all his kindness to hatred and persecution.

Who acts: retinue, refusal · What happens: feel, be, confess, deceive, refuse, set · To what, where: retinue, marriage, king, kindness, hatred

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retinue, refusal), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 impossible	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 impossible	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 impossible	cop
6	equally	equally	ADV	_	7 impossible	advmod
7	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 confess	mark
9	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 impossible	csubj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 deceived	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 deceived	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deceived	aux
13	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 confess	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 deceived	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refuse	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 refuse	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 refuse	mark
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 marriage	det
20	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 refuse	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 set	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 set	aux
25	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 marriage	acl:relcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 set	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 refusal	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 refusal	det
30	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	parataxis
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 turn	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 turn	aux
33	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 refusal	acl:relcl
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 kindness	det:predet
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 kindness	nmod:poss
36	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turn	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 hatred	case
38	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 turn	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 persecution	cc
40	persecution	persecution	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hatred	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	retinue				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	retinue not said here			equally, impossible property	tree rules
3	confess	to-infinitive					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	deceive	past · perfect · passive		retinue			tree rules
5	refuse	to-infinitive	retinue not said here	the marriage			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme
6	set	past · perfect · passive		king	the marriage		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination
7	turn	might	a refusal	king's kindness	hatred and persecution		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent kindness=Theme to hatred=Trajectory

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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