The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 1

For some reason that the princess could not guess these words seemed to displease the bird, and he did not answer.

Who acts: princess, bird · What happens: not guess, seem, displease, not answer · To what, where: words, bird

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, bird), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 reason	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 guess	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guess	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 guess	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 guess	advmod
9	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	advcl
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 guess	obj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 displease	mark
14	displease	displease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 displease	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 answer	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answer	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 answer	advmod
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not guess	could	the princess	this words		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	seem	past			for some reason	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	displease	to-infinitive		the bird		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer
4	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	bird			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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