The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

The ladies were rather amused at the man's assurances and after some discussion it was agreed that he should be allowed to stay, as his society might prove entertaining. "

Who acts: man, society · What happens: amuse, agree, allow, stay, prove, entertain · To what, where: ladies, assurances, discussion, man

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, society), 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	2 ladies	det
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 amused	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amused	aux:pass
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 amused	advmod
5	amused	amuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 assurances	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assurances	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 man	case
10	assurances	assurance	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 amused	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 discussion	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 discussion	det
14	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 agreed	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 agreed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 agreed	aux:pass
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 amused	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 allowed	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allowed	nsubj:pass
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 allowed	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 allowed	aux:pass
22	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 agreed	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stay	mark
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 allowed	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 prove	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 prove	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 society	nmod:poss
28	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 prove	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 prove	aux
30	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 stay	conj
31	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 prove	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 amused	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	amuse	past · passive		the ladies	the man's assurances		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	agree speech: agree	past · passive		discussion		after some discussion	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic
3	allow	should · passive		man			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	prove	might	man's society				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	entertain	gerund	man's society not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	assure		the man				nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: 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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