The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 81

Indeed, though they grew louder and more insulting the higher she climbed, the princess only laughed, and said to herself that she certainly would not let a few rough words stand between her and the goal.

Who acts: echoes, princess, few rough words · What happens: grow, insult, climb, laugh, say, not let · To what, where: 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 (echoes, princess, few rough words), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 grew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 grew	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grew	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 insulting	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 insulting	advmod
9	insulting	insult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 grew	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 higher	det
11	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 climbed	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 climbed	nsubj
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 insulting	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laughed	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 laughed	advmod
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 climbed	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 herself	case
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 said	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 let	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	nsubj
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 let	advmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 let	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 let	advmod
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 words	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
32	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stand	nsubj
34	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 let	xcomp
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 her	case
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stand	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 goal	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 goal	det
39	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 her	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	echoes = echo		indeed, loud property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	insult	gerund	echoes = echo not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	climb	past	princess			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	laugh	past	the princess			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	echoes = echo not said here	princess		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	not let	would	princess		certainly property	tree rules
7	stand	present	a few rough words		between princess	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between she=Location

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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