The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 94

This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways.

Who acts: This, tailor, Aladdin · What happens: grieve, die, not mend, spite · To what, where: father, ways, tears

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, tailor, Aladdin), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 grieved	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 grieved	advmod
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grieved	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grieved	advcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 yet	punct
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spite	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 spite	case
13	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 tears	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tears	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 mother	case
18	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spite	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prayers	cc
20	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tears	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mend	punct
22	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mend	nsubj
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mend	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 mend	advmod
25	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grieved	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ways	nmod:poss
27	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mend	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	This	the father			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
2	die	past	tailor		yet	in spite of tailor's mother's tears and prayers	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Attribute
3	not mend	past · do-support	Aladdin	tailor's ways			tree rules
4	spite			tailor's mother's tears and prayers			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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