The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 86

Then, fearing to be punished as his murderer by the unhappy father, I raised the great stone which blocked the staircase, and quitting the underground chamber, made everything fast as before.

Who acts: I, unhappy father, great stone · What happens: fear, punish, raise, block, quit, make · To what, where: great stone, staircase, underground chamber, everything

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, unhappy father, great stone), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fearing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 raised	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	6 punished	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 punished	aux:pass
6	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fearing	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 murderer	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 murderer	nmod:poss
9	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punished	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 father	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 father	det
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punished	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fearing	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 raised	nsubj
16	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stone	amod
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 raised	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 blocked	nsubj
21	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stone	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 staircase	det
23	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blocked	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 quitting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 quitting	cc
26	quitting	quit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 raised	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chamber	det
28	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 chamber	amod
29	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 quitting	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 raised	conj
32	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 made	obj
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 made	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 before	advmod
35	before	before	ADV	_	31 made	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund	I not said here		then		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	punish	to-infinitive · passive	the unhappy father			as father's murderer	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as murderer=Attribute
3	raise	past	I	the great stone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
4	block	past	the great stone	the staircase			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer staircase=Theme
5	quit	gerund	I not said here	the underground chamber			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Source
6	make	past	I not said here	everything		before, fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

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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