The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 44

She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Princess Haiatelnefous all that had happened, as well as her plans for the future, and begged her assistance, which her friend readily promised.

Who acts: Badoura, Princess Haiatelnefous, assistance, friend · What happens: return, tell, happen, beg, friend, promise · To what, where: plans, assistance · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Princess Haiatelnefous, assistance, friend), 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	3 returned	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 returned	advmod
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 apartments	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 apartments	nmod:poss
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apartments	amod
7	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 returned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 told	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Haiatelnefous	det
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Haiatelnefous	compound
14	Haiatelnefous	Haiatelnefous	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 happened	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 happened	det:predet
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	aux
18	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plans	punct
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	24 plans	cc
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed
22	as	as	ADP	_	20 as	fixed
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 plans	nmod:poss
24	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 happened	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 future	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 future	det
27	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plans	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 begged	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 begged	cc
30	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 assistance	nmod:poss
32	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 begged	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 friend	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 friend	nsubj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friend	nmod:poss
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 assistance	appos
37	readily	readily	ADV	_	38 promised	advmod
38	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 friend	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Badoura		then	to Badoura's private apartments result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to apartment=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	Badoura				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect	the Princess Haiatelnefous	Badoura's plans for the future			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	Badoura not said here	Badoura's assistance			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient
5	friend		Badoura's assistance				tree rules
6	promise speech: promise	past	Badoura's friend not said here			readily property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	plan		Badoura			for the future	nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl
8	assist		Badoura				nom assistance «act transitive»: 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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