The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 66
I was to live happily till I was fifteen, when a terrible danger awaited me, which I should hardly escape.
Who acts: I, terrible danger · What happens: be, await, escape · To what, where: fifteen, me
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, terrible danger), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 live | mark |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 fifteen | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fifteen | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fifteen | cop |
| 9 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 live | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 awaited | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 awaited | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 danger | det |
| 13 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 danger | amod |
| 14 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awaited | nsubj |
| 15 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 awaited | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 escape | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 escape | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 escape | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 escape | aux |
| 21 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 22 escape | advmod |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 awaited | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | happily, live property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | fifteen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | await | past | a terrible danger | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | should | I | hardly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Initial_Location |
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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