The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 37

She begged him to sell it, and have nothing to do with devils.

Who acts: mother · What happens: beg, sell, have, do · To what, where: Aladdin, breakfast, nothing

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 (mother), 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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	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 begged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 begged	conj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 have	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nothing	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 devils	case
14	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	mother		Aladdin		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	sell	to-infinitive	mother not said here	breakfast			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	have	present	mother not said here	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	mother not said here	nothing not said here		with devils	vn act-114-1 «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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