The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 61

But a few hours were to undeceive her.

Who acts: few hours · What happens: undeceive · To what, where: Princess

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 (few hours), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 undeceive	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hours	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 undeceive	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 undeceive	aux
6	to	to	PART	_	7 undeceive	mark
7	undeceive	undeceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 undeceive	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 undeceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undeceive	past	a few hours	Princess					tree rules

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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