The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 63

Noureddin dared not appear all that day, and fearing to take refuge with his usual associates in case his father should seek him there, he spent the day in a secluded garden where he was not known.

Who acts: Noureddin, father, Saouy · What happens: not dare, not appear, fear, take, seek, spend · To what, where: refuge, Saouy, case, secluded garden

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 (Noureddin, father, Saouy), 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	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dared	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 dared	advmod
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dared	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det:predet
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fearing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fearing	cc
10	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dared	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 take	mark
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fearing	xcomp
13	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 associates	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 associates	nmod:poss
16	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 associates	amod
17	associates	associate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 case	case
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 seek	aux
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seek	obj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 seek	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 spent	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spent	nsubj
28	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dared	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 garden	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 garden	det
33	secluded	secluded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 garden	amod
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spent	obl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 known	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 known	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 known	aux:pass
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 known	advmod
39	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 garden	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dare	past	Noureddin					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not appear	infinitive	Noureddin not said here			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fear	gerund	Noureddin not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	take	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	refuge			with Saouy's usual associates	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme
5	seek	should	Saouy's father	Saouy	case; there			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in case=Location
6	spend	past	Saouy		a secluded garden	day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	not know	past · passive		Saouy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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