The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 59

Then, without allowing her time to thank him for all he had done, he bade her repose, saying she should tell him her adventures on the following day.

Who acts: Sultan, Princess · What happens: allow, thank, do, bade, say, tell · To what, where: Sultan, repose, adventures · 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 (Sultan, Princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bade	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 allowing	mark
4	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 bade	advcl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod:poss
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowing	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 thank	mark
8	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thank	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 thank	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 all	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 allowing	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 repose	nmod:poss
19	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bade	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 bade	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 saying	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 adventures	nmod:poss
27	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 day	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 day	det
30	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 day	amod
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	allow	gerund	Sultan not said here			time		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	Sultan not said here		Sultan		for all	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for all=Attribute
3	do	past · perfect	Sultan					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bade	past	Sultan	Princess's repose		then		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Sultan not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	should	Princess	Princess's adventures	Sultan	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient adventure=Topic
7	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	repose		Princess					nom repose «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9	adventure		Princess					nom adventure «act 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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