The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 46

He told her he loved the princess so deeply that he could not live without her, and meant to ask her in marriage of her father.

Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: tell, love, not live, mean, ask, marry · To what, where: mother, princess, marriage, father · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	nsubj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 deeply	advmod
9	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 live	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 live	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 live	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 live	advmod
14	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loved	advcl
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 live	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 meant	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 meant	cc
19	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 ask	mark
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 meant	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 marriage	case
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ask	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 marriage	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Aladdin		mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	love	past	Aladdin	the princess			deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	not live	could	Aladdin				without mother	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	mean	past	Aladdin not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	Aladdin not said here		mother	marriage of mother's father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	marry			mother's father				nom marriage «state 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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