The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 9

She waited for him till evening rather impatiently, and wondering what could have kept him from her so long.

Who acts: wife · What happens: wait, wonder, keep · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wife), 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 waited	nsubj
2	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waited	obl
5	till	till	ADP	_	6 evening	case
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waited	obl
7	rather	rather	ADV	_	8 impatiently	advmod
8	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	2 waited	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wondering	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wondering	cc
11	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 waited	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 kept	obj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 kept	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 kept	aux
15	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wondering	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kept	obl
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 kept	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	wife		evening	for husband; impatiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	wife not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	keep	could · perfect		husband		from wife; long property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute

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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