The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 45

The old woman made some objections to so much honour being done her, but the princess refused to listen, and insisted that her guest should take the best seat, and as she thought she must be tired ordered refreshments.

Who acts: old woman, princess, guest · What happens: make, do, refuse, not listen, insist, take · To what, where: objections, much honour, best seat, tired ordered refreshments · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, princess, guest), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 objections	det
6	objections	objection	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	12 done	mark
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 honour	amod
10	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj:pass
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 refused	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 refused	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 princess	det
17	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 refused	nsubj
18	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 listen	mark
20	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 refused	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 insisted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 insisted	cc
23	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 take	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 guest	nmod:poss
26	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 take	aux
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 insisted	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 seat	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 seat	amod
31	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thought	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thought	cc
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 thought	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 thought	nsubj
36	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 refreshments	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 refreshments	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 refreshments	cop
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 refreshments	amod
41	ordered	ordered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 refreshments	amod
42	refreshments	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 thought	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	past	the old woman	some objections	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product
2	do	gerund · passive		much honour	tree rules
3	refuse	past	the princess		vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not listen	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	insist speech: other	past	the old woman not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take	should	woman's guest	the best seat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	princess		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	must	princess	tired ordered refreshments	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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