The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 19

The Sultan was transported with delight on learning the result of the interview, and his opinion of the doctor's skill was raised still higher when, on the following day, the princess behaved towards him in such a way as to persuade him that her complete cure would not be long delayed.

Who acts: princess, Sultan · What happens: transport, learn, raise, follow, behave, persuade · To what, where: Sultan, result, opinion, following day, way, interview

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Sultan), 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 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 transported	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 transported	aux:pass
4	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 delight	case
6	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 transported	obl
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 learning	mark
8	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 transported	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 result	det
10	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learning	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 interview	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 interview	det
13	interview	interview	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 result	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 raised	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 raised	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 opinion	nmod:poss
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raised	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 skill	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 doctor	det
20	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 skill	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 doctor	case
22	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opinion	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 raised	aux:pass
24	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 transported	parataxis
25	still	still	ADV	_	26 higher	advmod
26	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 raised	xcomp
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 raised	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 day	punct
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 raised	obl:unmarked
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 behaved	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 princess	det
35	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 behaved	nsubj
36	behaved	behave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 day	acl:relcl
37	towards	towards	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 behaved	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 way	case
40	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 way	det:predet
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 behaved	obl
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 persuade	mark
44	to	to	PART	_	45 persuade	mark
45	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 way	acl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 persuade	obj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 delayed	mark
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cure	nmod:poss
49	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 cure	amod
50	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 delayed	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 delayed	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 long	advmod
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 long	cop
54	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 delayed	amod
55	delayed	delayed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 persuade	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 transported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	transport	past · passive		the Sultan			with delight	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	learn	gerund		the result of the interview				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Topic
3	raise	past · passive		Sultan's opinion of the doctor's skill		day	high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	behave	past	the princess	the following day not said here	such way		towards Sultan	tree rules
6	persuade	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	Sultan				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	not is	infinitive					long property	tree rules
8	result			the interview				nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
9	opine		Sultan	the doctor's skill				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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