The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 41

She longed to throw herself on his neck, but restrained herself, feeling it was better for them both that she should play her part a little longer.

Who acts: Badoura · What happens: long, throw, restrain, feel, be, play · To what, where: Badoura, neck, part

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura), 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 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 throw	mark
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 throw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 neck	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 restrained	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 restrained	cc
11	restrained	restrain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 longed	conj
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 restrained	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feeling	punct
14	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 restrained	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 better	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 better	cop
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 feeling	xcomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 better	obl
20	both	both	ADV	_	14 feeling	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 play	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 play	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 play	aux
24	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 feeling	advcl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 part	nmod:poss
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 play	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 little	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 longer	obl:unmarked
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 play	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	long	past	Badoura				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Badoura not said here	Badoura	captain's neck		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on neck=Destination
3	restrain	past	Badoura not said here	Badoura			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer herself=Eventuality
4	feel	gerund	Badoura not said here			both property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	past	Badoura not said here			for clothes; good property	tree rules
6	play	should	Badoura	Badoura's part		long property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme

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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