The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 23

At first I refused, but she begged so hard and promised to be such a good wife to me, that at last I consented.

Who acts: I, woman, that · What happens: refuse, beg, promise, be, consent · To what, where: last, good wife, me

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 (I, woman, that), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 refused	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begged	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 begged	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 begged	nsubj
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 hard	advmod
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 begged	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 promised	cc
12	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 begged	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	18 wife	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 wife	cop
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 wife	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wife	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wife	amod
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promised	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 that	punct
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 wife	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 promised	obl
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 consented	nsubj
26	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 last	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	I					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	woman				hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise	past	woman not said here			last		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive	that	such good wife	me			tree rules
5	consent	past	I					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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