The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 18

I have left her in one of your Highness's country houses, where she is waiting anxiously to be assured that I have not promised in vain."

Who acts: I, Sire · What happens: leave, wait, assure, not promise · To what, where: Sire, I, vain

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Sire), 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	3 left	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 left	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 houses	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Highness	nmod:poss
9	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 houses	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Highness	case
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 houses	compound
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waiting	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 waiting	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waiting	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 waiting	aux
17	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 houses	parataxis
18	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	21 assured	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 assured	aux:pass
21	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 waiting	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 promised	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 promised	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 promised	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 promised	advmod
26	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 assured	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 vain	case
28	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 promised	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present · perfect	I	Sire		in one of your Highness's country houses	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in one=Location
2	wait	present · progressive	Sire			anxiously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	assure	to-infinitive · passive	Sire not said here				vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme
4	not promise speech: promise	present · perfect · passive		I	vain		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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