The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 61

The old woman had taken her departure so abruptly that the Princess Parizade did not perceive till she was really gone that the directions were hardly clear enough to enable the search to be successful.

Who acts: old woman, Princess Parizade, Parizade, directions, woman · What happens: take, not perceive, be, enable, depart · To what, where: departure, search

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 Parizade, Parizade, directions), 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	5 taken	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 departure	nmod:poss
7	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 abruptly	advmod
9	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	5 taken	advmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 perceive	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Parizade	det
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Parizade	compound
13	Parizade	Parizade	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 perceive	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 perceive	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 perceive	advmod
16	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 taken	advcl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
20	really	really	ADV	_	21 gone	advmod
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 perceive	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 clear	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 directions	det
24	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 clear	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 clear	cop
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 clear	advmod
27	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gone	advcl
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 clear	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 enable	mark
30	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 clear	csubj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 search	det
32	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enable	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 successful	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 successful	cop
35	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 search	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	the old woman	woman's departure	abruptly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme
2	not perceive	past · do-support	the Princess Parizade			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	Parizade		gone property	tree rules
4	is	past	the directions		clear, enough, hardly property	tree rules
5	enable	to-infinitive		the search		tree rules
6	is	to-infinitive		the search not said here	successful property	tree rules
7	depart		woman			nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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