The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 47

Terrified at the thought that she might lose her only remaining brother, the princess entreated him to give up his project, but he remained firm.

Who acts: woman, princess, brother · What happens: lose, remain, entreat, give up, project · To what, where: Parizade, brother, project

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, princess, brother), 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	Terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 thought	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Terrified	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lose	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	acl:relcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lose	obj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 remaining	advmod
11	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 lose	advcl
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remaining	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 entreated	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 entreated	nsubj
16	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Terrified	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 entreated	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 entreated	xcomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 give	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 project	nmod:poss
22	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remained	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 remained	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 remained	nsubj
26	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Terrified	conj
27	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 remained	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	might	woman	Parizade		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	remain	gerund	woman not said here	brother		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brother=Attribute
3	entreat	past	the princess	brother		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give up	to-infinitive	the princess not said here	brother's project		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Source
5	remain	past	brother		firm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	project		brother			nom project «act 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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