The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 5

The only difficulty that occurred to her was that Prince Firouz Schah did not know how to manage the horse, and she dreaded lest they might find themselves in the same plight as before.

Who acts: only difficulty, Firouz, silence · What happens: occur, not be, manage, dread, find · To what, where: Princess, horse, silence, same plight · 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 (only difficulty, Firouz, silence), 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	3 difficulty	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 difficulty	amod
3	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 know	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 occurred	nsubj
5	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 difficulty	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 occurred	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 know	mark
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Firouz	nmod:desc
11	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 know	nsubj
12	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Firouz	flat
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 know	advmod
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 manage	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 manage	mark
18	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 manage	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dreaded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dreaded	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dreaded	nsubj
24	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	conj
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	28 find	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 dreaded	ccomp
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 find	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 plight	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plight	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 plight	amod
33	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obl
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 before	case
35	before	before	ADV	_	28 find	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	occur	past	the only difficulty		Princess			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past · do-support	the only difficulty				know property	tree rules
3	manage	to-infinitive		the horse				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
4	dread	past	Firouz					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	find	might	silence	silence		the same plight		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme as before=Attribute

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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