The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 60

The princess fell asleep, flattering herself that she had only to relate her story for the Sultan to be touched by compassion, and to restore her to the prince without delay.

Who acts: princess, compassion · What happens: fall, flatter, relate, touch, restore · To what, where: Princess, story, prince

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 (princess, compassion), 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	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flattering	punct
6	flattering	flatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fell	advcl
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 flattering	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 relate	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 relate	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 relate	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 relate	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 relate	mark
13	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 flattering	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 story	nmod:poss
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 relate	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 Sultan	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sultan	det
18	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 story	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	21 touched	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 touched	aux:pass
21	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 relate	advcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 compassion	case
23	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 touched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 restore	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 restore	cc
26	to	to	PART	_	27 restore	mark
27	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fell	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 restore	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 prince	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 prince	det
31	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 restore	obl
32	without	without	ADP	_	33 delay	case
33	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 restore	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the princess			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flatter	gerund	the princess not said here	Princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer
3	relate	past	Princess	Princess's story		for the Sultan	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
4	touch	to-infinitive · passive	compassion				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	restore	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	Princess	the prince	without delay	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to prince=Recipient

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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