The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 78

Then the dervish said that it was useless to say more, and he gave her the ball, which she flung before her.

Who acts: dervish, it, princess · What happens: say, be, give, fling · To what, where: more, ball, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dervish, it, princess), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dervish	det
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 useless	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 useless	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 useless	cop
8	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 useless	csubj
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ball	det
18	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flung	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flung	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flung	nsubj
22	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ball	acl:relcl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flung	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dervish			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it				useless property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		more				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic
4	give	past	dervish	the ball	princess			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ball=Theme
5	fling	past	princess	the ball		before difficulty		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme before she=Destination

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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