The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 46

The two princes returned home, but their adventure made so little impression on them that they quite forgot to speak to their sister on the subject.

Who acts: two princes, adventure, adventures, offers · What happens: return, make, forget, not speak, adventure · To what, where: little impression · 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 (two princes, adventure, adventures, offers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princes	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 princes	nummod
3	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 returned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 adventure	nmod:poss
9	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 returned	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 little	advmod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 impression	amod
13	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 impression	nmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 forgot	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 forgot	nsubj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 forgot	advmod
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 speak	mark
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgot	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 sister	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sister	nmod:poss
24	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 subject	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 subject	det
27	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sister	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	the two princes		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle	offers's adventure	little impression	on offers = offer	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product
3	forget	past	adventures = adventure			tree rules
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive	adventures = adventure not said here		to adventures's sister on the subject	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to sister=Co-Agent
5	adventure		offers = offer			nom adventure «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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