The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 31

Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come.

Who acts: daughter, beauty · What happens: act, order, watch, not allow, enter, come · To what, where: decision, two little slaves, beautiful Persian, Noureddin

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, beauty), 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	Acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 come	csubj
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	1 Acting	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 decision	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 decision	det
5	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Acting	obl
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ordered	nsubj
7	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 decision	acl:relcl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 slaves	nummod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 slaves	amod
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ordered	obj
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 absence	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 absence	nmod:poss
13	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Acting	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 watch	mark
15	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Acting	advcl
16	over	over	ADP	_	19 Persian	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Persian	det
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Persian	amod
19	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 watch	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 allow	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 allow	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 allow	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 allow	mark
24	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Acting	conj
25	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 allow	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 enter	mark
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 allow	xcomp
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund				this decision	during daughter's absence	forthwith property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on decision=Eventuality
2	order	past	daughter	two little slaves					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3	watch	to-infinitive				the beautiful Persian			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over persian=Location
4	not allow	to-infinitive			Noureddin				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer noureddin=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	enter not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	should	beauty						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	absent		daughter						nom absence «state 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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