The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 18

But the princess, while thanking them for their politeness, explained that she wished for no company but that of her brothers, and that the rest were free to go where they would.

Who acts: princess, rest · What happens: thank, explain, wish, be, go · To what, where: wishes, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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, rest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 explained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 explained	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thanking	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 thanking	mark
6	thanking	thank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 princess	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thanking	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 politeness	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 politeness	nmod:poss
10	politeness	politeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 princess	punct
12	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 wished	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wished	nsubj
15	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 explained	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 company	case
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 company	det
18	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wished	obl
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 that	cc
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 wished	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 brothers	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brothers	nmod:poss
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 that	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 free	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 free	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 free	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rest	det
28	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 free	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 free	cop
30	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 explained	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 free	advcl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 would	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 would	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	gerund	the princess not said here		wishes = wish	for wishes's politeness	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for politeness=Attribute
2	explain speech: assert	past	the princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	past	princess	that		for no company	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
4	is	past	the rest			free property	tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	the rest not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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