The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 87

He, however, only laughed at her advice, saying, that his father had always kept him in too great constraint, and that now he rejoiced at his new-found liberty.

Who acts: vizir · What happens: laugh, say, keep, rejoice, find · To what, where: advice, father, great constraint, found liberty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (vizir), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 He	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 advice	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 advice	nmod:poss
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 laughed	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 kept	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	aux
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 kept	advmod
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saying	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 constraint	case
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 great	advmod
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 constraint	amod
23	constraint	constraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rejoiced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rejoiced	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 now	mark
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 rejoiced	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rejoiced	nsubj
29	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	35 liberty	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 liberty	nmod:poss
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 found	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 new	punct
34	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 liberty	amod
35	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rejoiced	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	vizir		Noureddin's advice		however property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	past · perfect · passive		vizir's father	great constraint		always property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
4	rejoice	past	vizir		vizir's found liberty	now		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	find	participle						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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