The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 66

At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rather than break faith with the Prince of Persia by consenting to such a marriage, she determined to feign madness.

Who acts: senses, announcement · What happens: begin, come back, break, consent, determine, feign · To what, where: length, announcement, faith, madness

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 (senses, announcement), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 senses	nmod:poss
4	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 break	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 break	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 break	punct
16	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	18 break	cc
17	than	than	ADP	_	16 rather	fixed
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	parataxis
19	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 break	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 Prince	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 break	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Persia	case
24	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Prince	nmod
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 consenting	mark
26	consenting	consent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 break	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 marriage	case
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 marriage	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 marriage	det
30	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consenting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 determined	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 determined	nsubj
33	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 feign	mark
35	feign	feign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 determined	xcomp
36	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feign	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	announcement's senses			length		slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	come back	to-infinitive	announcement's senses not said here		announcement				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
3	break	infinitive		faith			then	with the Prince of Persia	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with prince=Instrument
4	consent	gerund						to such marriage	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme
5	determine	past	announcement						vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	feign	to-infinitive	announcement not said here	madness					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=Patient

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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