The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 88

At length they rose from the water in their proper forms, but darting such flames of fire from their mouths that we dreaded lest the palace should catch fire.

Who acts: wings, we, darting, fire · What happens: rise, dart, dread, catch, form, flame · To what, where: length, such flames, mouths, fire

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 (wings, we, darting, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 forms	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 forms	nmod:poss
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forms	amod
11	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rose	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 catch	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 catch	cc
14	darting	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 catch	csubj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flames	amod
16	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 darting	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 fire	case
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flames	nmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 mouths	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouths	nmod:poss
21	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 darting	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 dreaded	obj
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 dreaded	nsubj
24	dreaded	dread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mouths	acl:relcl
25	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dreaded	obl
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 catch	aux
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	conj
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 catch	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	wings = wing		length	from the water; in wings's proper forms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location
2	dart	gerund		such flames of fire	wings's mouths		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flame=Theme from mouth=Trajectory
3	dread	past	we	wings's mouths		lest the palace	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	catch	should	darting	fire			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	form		wings = wing				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	flame		fire				nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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