The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 22

She came up to me, kissed my hand, and implored me to marry her, and take her on board.

Who acts: woman · What happens: come up, kiss, implore, marry, take · To what, where: me, hand, woman, board

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kissed	punct
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kissed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 implored	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 implored	cc
12	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 implored	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 marry	mark
15	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 implored	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 marry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 take	cc
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 marry	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 board	case
22	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come up	past	woman		me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
2	kiss	past		my hand			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
3	implore	past	woman not said here	me			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	marry	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	take	infinitive	woman not said here	woman		board	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on board=Destination

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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