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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 5

The young man's heart beat fast as he listened, for he needed no further proof that her madness was feigned, and that it was love of him which had caused her to resort to this species of trick.

Who acts: heart, further proof, madness, love · What happens: beat, listen, need, feign, be, cause · To what, where: further proof, madness, love

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 (heart, further proof, madness, love), 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

detamodnmod:posscasensubjadvmodmarknsubjadvclpunctmarknsubjconjdetamodobjmarknmod:possnsubj:passaux:passaclpunctccmarknsubjcopnsubj:passcasenmodnsubjauxparataxisobjmarkxcompcasedetoblcasenmodpunctrootTheDETyoungADJmanNOUN'sPARTheartNOUNbeatVERBfastADVasSCONJhePRONlistenedVERB,PUNCTforSCONJhePRONneededVERBnoDETfurtherADJproofNOUNthatSCONJherPRONmadnessNOUNwasAUXfeignedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXloveNOUNofADPhimPRONwhichPRONhadAUXcausedVERBherPRONtoPARTresortVERBtoADPthisDETspeciesNOUNofADPtrickNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 mandet
2youngyoungADJDegree=Pos3 manamod
3manmanNOUNNumber=Sing5 heartnmod:poss
4's'sPART_3 mancase
5heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing6 beatnsubj
6beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7fastfastADVDegree=Pos6 beatadvmod
8asasSCONJ_10 listenedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 listenednsubj
10listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 beatadvcl
11,,PUNCT_14 neededpunct
12forforSCONJ_14 neededmark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 needednsubj
14neededneedVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 listenedconj
15nonoDETPronType=Neg17 proofdet
16furtherfurtherADJDegree=Pos17 proofamod
17proofproofNOUNNumber=Sing14 neededobj
18thatthatSCONJ_22 feignedmark
19herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 madnessnmod:poss
20madnessmadnessNOUNNumber=Sing22 feignednsubj:pass
21wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 feignedaux:pass
22feignedfeignVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 proofacl
23,,PUNCT_33 causedpunct
24andandCCONJ_33 causedcc
25thatthatSCONJ_28 lovemark
26ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 lovensubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 lovecop
28loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing33 causednsubj:pass
29ofofADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 lovenmod
31whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 causednsubj
32hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 causedaux
33causedcauseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 beatparataxis
34hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 causedobj
35totoPART_36 resortmark
36resortresortVERBVerbForm=Inf33 causedxcomp
37totoADP_39 speciescase
38thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem39 speciesdet
39speciesspeciesNOUNNumber=Plur36 resortobl
40ofofADP_41 trickcase
41tricktrickNOUNNumber=Sing39 speciesnmod
42..PUNCT_6 beatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1beatpresentthe young man's heartfast propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2listenpastheartvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3needpastheartno further proofvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme
4feignpast · passiveno further proof not said hereprincess's madnessvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5is apastmadnessloveof hearttree rules
6causepast · perfect · passivelovetree rules
7resortto-infinitivelove not said hereto this species of trick resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to species=Result

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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