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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 84

The following night exactly the same thing happened, and next morning, on the princess's refusing to speak, the Sultan threatened to cut off her head.

Who acts: following night, Sultan · What happens: follow, happen, refuse, not speak, threaten, cut off · To what, where: head · 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 (following night, Sultan), 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

detamodnsubjadvmoddetamodnsubjpunctccamodoblpunctmarkdetnmod:posscaseadvclmarkxcomppunctdetnsubjconjmarkxcompcompound:prtnmod:possobjpunctrootTheDETfollowingVERBnightNOUNexactlyADVtheDETsameADJthingNOUNhappenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJnextADJmorningNOUN,PUNCTonSCONJtheDETprincessNOUN'sPARTrefusingVERBtoPARTspeakVERB,PUNCTtheDETSultanPROPNthreatenedVERBtoPARTcutVERBoffADPherPRONheadNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 nightdet
2followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger3 nightamod
3nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing8 happenednsubj
4exactlyexactlyADV_8 happenedadvmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 thingdet
6samesameADJDegree=Pos7 thingamod
7thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing8 happenednsubj
8happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9,,PUNCT_12 morningpunct
10andandCCONJ_12 morningcc
11nextnextADJDegree=Pos12 morningamod
12morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing8 happenedobl
13,,PUNCT_18 refusingpunct
14ononSCONJ_18 refusingmark
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 princessdet
16princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing18 refusingnmod:poss
17's'sPART_16 princesscase
18refusingrefuseVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 happenedadvcl
19totoPART_20 speakmark
20speakspeakVERBVerbForm=Inf18 refusingxcomp
21,,PUNCT_24 threatenedpunct
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Sultandet
23SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing24 threatenednsubj
24threatenedthreatenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 happenedconj
25totoPART_26 cutmark
26cutcutVERBVerbForm=Inf24 threatenedxcomp
27offoffADP_26 cutcompound:prt
28herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 headnmod:poss
29headheadNOUNNumber=Sing26 cutobj
30..PUNCT_8 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2happenpastthe following nightmorningexactly propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3refusegerundthe following night not said herevn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4not speak speech: otherto-infinitivethe following night not said herevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5threatenpastthe Sultantree rules
6cut off not said to happento-infinitivethe Sultan not said herechild's headvn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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