The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 101

But having let this chance slip I was forced to resort to fire, and in spite of all his experience I showed the genius that I knew more than he did.

Who acts: chance slip, I, fire · What happens: let, force, resort, show, know, do · To what, where: chance slip, I, genius, experience

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance slip, I, fire), 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	_	3 let	cc
2	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 slip	det
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	compound
6	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 forced	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forced	aux:pass
9	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 slip	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 resort	mark
11	resort	resort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 forced	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 fire	case
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 resort	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 showed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 showed	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spite	case
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 experience	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 experience	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 experience	nmod:poss
21	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spite	nmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 genius	det
25	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showed	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 knew	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 genius	acl:relcl
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 knew	obj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 more	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	gerund		this chance slip		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme
2	force	past · passive	this chance slip not said here	I		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	resort	to-infinitive	I not said here		to fire result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fire=Result
4	show	past	I	the genius	in spite of fire's experience	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent genius=Patient in spite=Topic
5	know	past	I	the genius		tree rules
6	do	past	fire			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	spite			fire's experience		nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	experience		fire			nom experience «cognition 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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