The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 83

At this dreadful news the Sultan was so overcome with rage and grief that it was with great difficulty that the grand-vizir managed to save the Sultana from his wrath.

Who acts: Sultan, Sultana, grand vizir · What happens: be, manage, save · To what, where: dreadful news, Sultana, wrath

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 (Sultan, Sultana, grand vizir), 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	_	4 news	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 news	det
3	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 news	amod
4	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overcome	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sultan	det
6	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 overcome	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overcome	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 overcome	advmod
9	overcome	overcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 rage	case
11	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overcome	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grief	cc
13	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rage	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 difficulty	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 difficulty	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 difficulty	cop
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 difficulty	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 difficulty	amod
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rage	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 managed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 vizir	det
22	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 vizir	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 grand	punct
24	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 managed	nsubj
25	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 difficulty	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 save	mark
27	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sultana	det
29	Sultana	Sultana	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 save	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 wrath	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wrath	nmod:poss
32	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 save	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 overcome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sultan		this dreadful news	with rage and grief and great difficulty; overcome property	tree rules
2	is	past	Sultana			with great difficulty	tree rules
3	manage	past	the grand vizir				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	save	to-infinitive	the grand vizir not said here	the Sultana	Sultan's wrath		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sultana=Theme from wrath=Source

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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