The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 59

These words, which were so unexpected, threw the sisters into great confusion, their eyes fell, and the blushes of the youngest did not fail to make an impression on the heart of the Sultan.

Who acts: words, eyes · What happens: be, throw, fall, not fail, make · To what, where: sisters, great confusion, impression, heart

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 (words, eyes), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 unexpected	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 unexpected	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unexpected	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 unexpected	advmod
7	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 words	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 words	punct
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sisters	det
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 confusion	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 confusion	amod
14	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 threw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threw	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 youngest	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 youngest	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 blushes	det
22	blushes	blush	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 youngest	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 youngest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 youngest	det
25	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 threw	advcl
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fail	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 fail	advmod
28	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 youngest	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 make	mark
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 fail	xcomp
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 impression	det
32	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 heart	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heart	det
35	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 impression	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 Sultan	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sultan	det
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 heart	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this words			unexpected property	tree rules
2	throw	past	this words	the sisters		into great confusion result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer sister=Theme into confusion=Result
3	fall	past	words's eyes				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not fail	past · do-support					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	make	to-infinitive		a impression	the heart of the Sultan		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product

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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