The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 82

We all remained where we were quaking with anxiety, when the ground opened in front of us and a black and white cat leapt out, its hair standing on end, and miauing frightfully.

Who acts: we, ground, hair · What happens: remain, quake, open, leapt out, stand, miau · To what, where: We, front, hair, end

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 (we, ground, hair), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remained	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 remained	nsubj:pass
3	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 quaking	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 quaking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quaking	aux
7	quaking	quake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 remained	advcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 anxiety	case
9	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quaking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 opened	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 opened	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	nsubj
14	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opened	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 front	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cat	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cat	det
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cat	amod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 white	cc
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 black	conj
24	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 us	conj
25	leapt	leapt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 opened	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 leapt	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hair	punct
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leapt	obl
30	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hair	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 end	case
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 standing	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 miauing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 miauing	cc
35	miauing	miau	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 standing	conj
36	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	35 miauing	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	participle · passive		We				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	quake	past · progressive	we				with anxiety	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	open	past	the ground		front of us			tree rules
4	leapt out	infinitive	the ground not said here	ground's hair				tree rules
5	stand	gerund	ground's hair not said here			on end		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
6	miau	gerund	ground's hair not said here				frightfully property	tree rules

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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