The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 83

It was so high above me, that I had some difficulty in reaching it, and catching my foot in the covering of the bed, I slipped, and fell right upon the young man, the knife going straight into his heart.

Who acts: head, I, difficulty, knife · What happens: be, have, reach, catch, slip, fall · To what, where: difficulty, head, foot, covering, heart

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 (head, I, difficulty, knife), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 high	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	above	above	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 high	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	parataxis
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 difficulty	det
12	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 reaching	mark
14	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 difficulty	acl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reaching	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 slipped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 slipped	cc
18	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 slipped	advcl
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catching	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 covering	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 covering	det
23	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 catching	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 bed	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bed	det
26	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covering	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 catching	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 slipped	nsubj
29	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 slipped	conj
33	right	right	ADV	_	32 fell	advmod
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 man	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 knife	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 knife	det
40	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	nmod
41	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 knife	acl
42	straight	straight	ADV	_	45 heart	advmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 heart	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 heart	nmod:poss
45	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 going	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	head			above me; high property	tree rules
2	have	past	I	some difficulty			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
3	reach	gerund	some difficulty not said here	head			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	catch	gerund	I not said here	my foot	the covering of the bed		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
5	slip	past	I				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	fall	past	I not said here			upon the young man the knife; right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon man=Location
7	go	gerund	the knife not said here		father's heart		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=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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