The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 27

I really did not want the bread at all, but felt it would be ungracious to refuse, so I ate it slowly, in order that he might see that I only did it out of politeness.

Who acts: I, it, dog · What happens: not want, feel, be, refuse, eat, see · To what, where: bread, all, order, politeness

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, it, dog), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 want	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 want	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 felt	cc
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ungracious	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ungracious	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ungracious	cop
16	ungracious	ungracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 refuse	mark
18	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ungracious	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ate	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 ate	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ate	nsubj
22	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ate	obj
24	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 ate	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 order	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 order	case
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ate	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 see	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 order	acl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 did	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 did	nsubj
34	only	only	ADV	_	35 did	advmod
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 see	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 did	obj
37	out	out	ADP	_	39 politeness	case
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 politeness	case
39	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 did	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	I	the bread	all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bread=Theme
2	feel	past					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	would	it			ungracious property	tree rules
4	refuse	to-infinitive					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	eat	past	I	bread	order	slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	see	might	dog	order not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus
7	do	past	I	bread	politeness		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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