The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 70

This, though quite natural, was highly displeasing to the elder sisters, who fell into a passion of jealousy, which in the end caused a great deal of trouble and pain to several people.

Who acts: elder sisters, jealousy · What happens: displease, fall, cause, deal · To what, where: passion, great deal, end, trouble

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 (elder sisters, jealousy), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 natural	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 natural	punct
3	though	though	ADV	_	5 natural	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 natural	advmod
5	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 displeasing	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 displeasing	aux
8	highly	highly	ADV	_	9 displeasing	advmod
9	displeasing	displease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 natural	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 sisters	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sisters	det
12	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sisters	amod
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 displeasing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sisters	acl:relcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 passion	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 passion	det
19	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 jealousy	case
21	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 passion	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 caused	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 caused	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 end	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 end	det
26	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caused	obl
27	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jealousy	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 deal	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 deal	amod
30	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caused	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 trouble	case
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 deal	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pain	cc
34	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 trouble	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 people	case
36	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 people	amod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 trouble	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 natural	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	displease	past · progressive				to the elder sisters; highly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	past	the elder sisters			into a passion of jealousy result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result
3	cause	past	jealousy	a great deal of trouble to several people and pain	in the end		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition deal=Patient
4	deal			trouble to several people and pain			nom deal «act transitive»: 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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