The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 18

But I refused to come out of my hole, and spent the night in sleep, which I sorely needed, after the pain inflicted on me by Amina.

Who acts: I · What happens: refuse, not come out, spend, need, inflict · To what, where: hole, sleep, pain

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 refused	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 hole	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hole	nmod:poss
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spent	cc
12	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 refused	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spent	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 sleep	case
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 needed	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 needed	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 needed	nsubj
20	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	21 needed	advmod
21	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sleep	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pain	punct
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 pain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pain	det
25	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spent	obl
26	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 pain	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 inflicted	obl
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 Amina	case
30	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 inflicted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	I					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not come out	to-infinitive	I not said here	my hole				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
3	spend	past	I not said here		sleep	after the pain; night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	need	past	I	sleep			sorely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
5	inflict	participle		the pain not said here			on me; by Amina	tree rules

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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