The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 85

The Princess of Bengal was too reasonable not to accept the explanation offered by Prince Firouz Schah, but she was much disturbed at his intention of departing at once, for she feared that, no sooner had he left her, than the impression she had made on him would fade away.

Who acts: Princess, intention, prince, impression · What happens: be, not accept, offer, disturb, depart, fear · To what, where: explanation, princess, intention, that, impression

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 (Princess, intention, prince, impression), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reasonable	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Bengal	case
4	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Princess	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reasonable	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 reasonable	advmod
7	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 accept	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 accept	mark
10	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reasonable	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 explanation	det
12	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 accept	obj
13	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 explanation	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Firouz	case
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Firouz	nmod:desc
16	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 offered	obl:agent
17	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Firouz	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 disturbed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 disturbed	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 disturbed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 disturbed	aux:pass
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 disturbed	advmod
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 reasonable	parataxis
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 intention	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 intention	nmod:poss
26	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 disturbed	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 departing	mark
28	departing	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 intention	acl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 departing	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 feared	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 feared	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 feared	nsubj
34	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 disturbed	advcl
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 feared	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 had	punct
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 sooner	det
38	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 had	advmod
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 feared	conj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	nsubj
41	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 had	ccomp
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 impression	punct
44	than	than	ADP	_	46 impression	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 impression	det
46	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fade	nsubj
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 made	nsubj
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 made	aux
49	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 impression	acl:relcl
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 made	obl
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 fade	aux
53	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 had	xcomp
54	away	away	ADV	_	53 fade	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reasonable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Princess of Bengal			reasonable property	tree rules
2	not accept	to-infinitive	the Princess of Bengal not said here	the explanation			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme
3	offer	participle		the explanation not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	disturb	past · passive		princess	prince's intention		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	depart	gerund	prince's intention not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fear	past	princess	that			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
7	have	past	princess not said here			soon property	tree rules
8	leave	past	prince	princess			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
9	make	past · perfect	impression	the impression not said here		on prince	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Product
10	fade away	would	the impression			away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	intend		prince				nom intention «cognition 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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