The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 38

Their sorrow for their father was very deep, and they lived quietly on in their new home, without feeling any desire to leave it for court gaieties or intrigues.

Who acts: sorrow, children · What happens: be, live, feel, leave, sorrow · To what, where: new home, desire

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 (sorrow, children), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sorrow	nmod:poss
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deep	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorrow	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deep	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 deep	advmod
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deep	parataxis
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 home	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 home	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 home	nmod:poss
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 home	amod
18	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feeling	punct
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 feeling	mark
21	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lived	advcl
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 desire	det
23	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feeling	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 leave	mark
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 feeling	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 leave	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 gaieties	case
28	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gaieties	compound
29	gaieties	gaiety	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leave	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 intrigues	cc
31	intrigues	intrigue	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gaieties	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 deep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	children's sorrow for children's father			deep property	tree rules
2	live	past	children = child		children's new home	quietly property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on home=Location
3	feel	gerund	children = child not said here	any desire			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
4	leave	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	desire		for court gaieties or intrigues	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for gaiety=Recipient
5	sorrow		children = child			for children's father	nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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