The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 86

Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.

Who acts: fair Persian, Noureddin · What happens: consent, appear, disapprove, not scruple, warn · To what, where: festivities, 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 (fair Persian, Noureddin), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 consented	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Persian	det
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Persian	amod
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 consented	nsubj
5	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 appear	mark
7	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consented	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 festivities	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 festivities	det
10	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 appear	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 disapproved	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 disapproved	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 disapproved	nsubj
14	disapproved	disapprove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 consented	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 expenditure	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 expenditure	det
17	lavish	lavish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 expenditure	amod
18	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disapproved	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scruple	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scruple	cc
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 scruple	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 scruple	advmod
23	scruple	scruple	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 disapproved	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 warn	mark
25	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 scruple	advcl
26	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 warn	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 consequences	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 consequences	det
29	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 consequences	amod
30	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Noureddin	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	the fair Persian			sometimes property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	appear	to-infinitive	the fair Persian not said here		this festivities		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at festivity=Location
3	disapprove	past	Noureddin			of this lavish expenditure	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not scruple	past · do-support	Noureddin not said here				tree rules
5	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	Noureddin not said here	Noureddin of the probable consequences			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noureddin=Recipient

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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