The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 11

But the poor lady was so much beloved at Court that not even the dread of sharing her fate could prevent the grand-vizir and the courtiers from throwing themselves at the Sultan's feet and imploring him not to inflict so cruel a punishment for what, after all, was not her fault.

Who acts: dread, all · What happens: belov, share, prevent, throw, implore, not inflict · To what, where: poor lady, Court, fate, vizir, feet, prince

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread, all), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 beloved	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beloved	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 beloved	aux:pass
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 beloved	advmod
8	beloved	belov	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Court	case
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beloved	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 prevent	obj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 dread	advmod
13	even	even	ADV	_	15 dread	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dread	det
15	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prevent	nsubj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 sharing	mark
17	sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 dread	acl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 fate	nmod:poss
19	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sharing	obj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 prevent	aux
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Court	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vizir	det
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 vizir	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 grand	punct
25	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 prevent	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 courtiers	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 courtiers	det
28	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 vizir	conj
29	from	from	SCONJ	_	30 throwing	mark
30	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 prevent	advcl
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 throwing	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	36 feet	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sultan	det
34	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 feet	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 Sultan	case
36	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 throwing	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 imploring	cc
38	imploring	implore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 throwing	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 imploring	obj
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 inflict	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 inflict	mark
42	inflict	inflict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 imploring	xcomp
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 cruel	advmod
44	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 punishment	amod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 punishment	det
46	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 inflict	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 what	case
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 punishment	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 all	punct
50	after	after	ADP	_	51 all	case
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 fault	nsubj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 all	punct
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 fault	cop
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 fault	advmod
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 fault	nmod:poss
56	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 what	acl:relcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 beloved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	belov	past · passive		the poor lady	Court	tree rules
2	share	gerund	the dread not said here	dread's fate		tree rules
3	prevent	could	the dread	Court		tree rules
4	throw	gerund	the dread not said here	vizir	the Sultan's feet	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination
5	implore	gerund	the dread not said here	prince		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not inflict	to-infinitive	the dread not said here	a cruel punishment		tree rules
7	not is a	past	all	dread's fault		tree rules
8	fate		dread			nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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