The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 19

As he said this the prince was about to throw himself at the feet of the Sultan, but his father prevented him, and embracing him again, said eagerly:

Who acts: Prince, father · What happens: say, be, throw, prevent, embrace · To what, where: this, Prince, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, father), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 said	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	advcl
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 said	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 about	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 about	cop
8	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 about	xcomp
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 throw	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 feet	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 feet	det
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Sultan	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 feet	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prevented	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 prevented	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prevented	nsubj
22	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 prevented	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 embracing	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 embracing	cc
26	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 prevented	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 embracing	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 embracing	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	30 said	advmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Prince	this				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	is	past	the prince				about property	tree rules
3	throw	to-infinitive	the prince not said here	Prince	the feet of the Sultan			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
4	prevent	past	Prince's father	Prince				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
5	embrace	gerund	Prince's father not said here	Prince		again		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past					eagerly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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