The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 120

She told him that, having seen him, she willingly obeyed her father in this matter.

Who acts: air · What happens: tell, have, see, obey · To what, where: that, Aladdin, father, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 told	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 having	punct
6	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 having	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seen	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obeyed	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 obeyed	nsubj
11	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	12 obeyed	advmod
12	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obeyed	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 matter	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obeyed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	air	that	Aladdin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
2	have	gerund	air not said here					tree rules
3	see	participle	air not said here	Aladdin				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	obey	past	air	air's father		this matter	willingly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme

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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