The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 22

But the poor lady bore herself with so much dignity and meekness that it was not long before she had won the sympathy of those that were best among the crowd.

Who acts: poor lady, meekness, lady, those · What happens: bear, not be, win, be · To what, where: lady, sympathy

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 (poor lady, meekness, lady, those), 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	_	5 bore	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	5 bore	nsubj
5	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 bore	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 dignity	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dignity	amod
10	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bore	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 meekness	cc
12	meekness	meekness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dignity	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 long	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 long	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 long	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 bore	advmod
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 won	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 won	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 won	aux
21	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 long	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sympathy	det
23	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 won	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 best	case
25	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 best	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 best	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 best	cop
28	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 sympathy	appos
29	among	among	ADP	_	31 crowd	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 crowd	det
31	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 best	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the poor lady	lady	with much dignity and meekness	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	not is	past	meekness		long property	tree rules
3	win	past · perfect	lady	the sympathy		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Eventuality
4	is	past	those		among the crowd; good property	tree rules

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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