The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 86

So she made one more effort to keep him, and after assuring him that she entirely approved of his anxiety to see his father, begged him to give her a day or two more of his company.

Who acts: impression · What happens: make, keep, assure, approve, see, beg · To what, where: one more effort, prince, father, more, 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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 effort	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 effort	amod
6	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 effort	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 assuring	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 assuring	cc
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 assuring	mark
13	assuring	assure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 made	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 assuring	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 approved	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 approved	nsubj
17	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	18 approved	advmod
18	approved	approve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 assuring	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 anxiety	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 anxiety	nmod:poss
21	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 approved	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 approved	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 begged	punct
27	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 begged	xcomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obl:unmarked
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 two	cc
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 day	conj
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 give	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 company	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 company	nmod:poss
39	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 more	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	impression	one more effort				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
2	keep	to-infinitive	impression not said here	prince				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	assure	gerund	impression not said here		prince			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	approve	past	impression				of prince's anxiety; entirely property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	see	to-infinitive	impression not said here	prince's father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
6	beg speech: request	past	impression not said here		prince			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	impression not said here	more	impression	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient more=Theme

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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