The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 92

Both I and the Sultan had given up all hope of a rescue, when there was a shout of "Victory, victory!" from the princess, and the genius lay at her feet a great heap of ashes.

Who acts: hope, genius, rescue · What happens: give up, be, lie, hope, shout · To what, where: I, great heap, feet, Victory

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 (hope, genius, rescue), 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	Both	both	CCONJ	_	7 given	cc:preconj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 given	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sultan	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sultan	det
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 I	conj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	aux
7	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 given	compound:prt
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hope	det
10	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 princess	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rescue	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rescue	det
13	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hope	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 was	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 princess	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shout	det
19	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Victory	case
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Victory	punct
22	Victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shout	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 victory	punct
24	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shout	appos
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 victory	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 victory	punct
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 princess	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 princess	det
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 given	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lay	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 genius	det
33	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 given	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 feet	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 feet	nmod:poss
37	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 heap	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 heap	amod
40	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 ashes	case
42	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 heap	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past · perfect · passive		I			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	is	past	all hope of a rescue			from the princess	tree rules
3	lie	past	the genius	a great heap of ashes	princess's feet		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme
4	hope		a rescue				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent
5	shout			Victory			nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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