The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 57

"Prince," returned she as soon as her confusion permitted her to speak, "you have given me the greatest pleasure, and I have followed you closely in all your adventures, and though you are positively sitting before me, I even trembled at your danger in the upper regions of the air!

Who acts: Prince, confusion, you, blush, your · What happens: return, permit, speak, give, follow, be · To what, where: blush, greatest pleasure, confusion, adventures, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, confusion, you, blush), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 returned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Prince	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 soon	nsubj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 returned	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 permitted	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 confusion	nmod:poss
11	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 permitted	nsubj
12	permitted	permit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soon	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 permitted	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 speak	mark
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 permitted	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 given	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 given	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 given	aux
20	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 speak	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 given	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pleasure	det
23	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 pleasure	amod
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 given	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 followed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 followed	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 followed	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 followed	aux
29	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 given	advcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 followed	obj
31	closely	closely	ADV	_	29 followed	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 adventures	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 adventures	det:predet
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 adventures	nmod:poss
35	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 followed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 trembled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 trembled	cc
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	41 positively	mark
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 positively	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 positively	cop
41	positively	positively	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 trembled	advcl
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 positively	advcl
43	before	before	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 sitting	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 positively	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 trembled	nsubj
47	even	even	ADV	_	48 trembled	advmod
48	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 adventures	conj
49	at	at	ADP	_	51 danger	case
50	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 danger	nmod:poss
51	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 trembled	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 regions	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 regions	det
54	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 regions	amod
55	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 trembled	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 air	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 air	det
58	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 regions	nmod
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	Prince					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	permit	past	blush's confusion	blush					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	blush's confusion not said here						tree rules
4	give in a quote	present · perfect	you	the greatest pleasure	blush's confusion = confusion				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
5	follow in a quote	present · perfect · passive		blush's confusion = confusion		your adventures		closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme you=Attribute
6	is in a quote	present	you					positively property	tree rules
7	sit in a quote	gerund	you not said here				before blush's confusion = confusion		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location
8	tremble in a quote	past	blush's confusion = confusion			your danger		in the upper regions of the air	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at danger=Location
9	confuse		blush						nom confusion «state transitive»: poss=agent
10	adventure in a quote		your						nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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