The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 88

The false Fatima, who wished for nothing better, consented, but kept his veil down for fear of discovery.

Who acts: false Fatima · What happens: wish, consent, keep down, fear · To what, where: veil, discovery

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (false Fatima), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fatima	det
2	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fatima	amod
3	Fatima	Fatima	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wished	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 wished	obl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wished	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consented	punct
11	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 better	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wished	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 veil	nmod:poss
16	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	14 kept	compound:prt
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 fear	case
19	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 discovery	case
21	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fear	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	the false Fatima		for nothing	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for nothing=Theme
2	consent	participle	the false Fatima not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep down	past	the false Fatima not said here	magician's veil	for fear of discovery	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Patient
4	fear			discovery		nom fear «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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