The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 90

Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the slaves came up the steps, carrying with them the body of the old man, who had fainted from sorrow!

Who acts: fearful scream, next instant, old man · What happens: rend, come up, carry, faint · To what, where: air, steps, body

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 (fearful scream, next instant, old man), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 rent	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scream	det
3	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scream	amod
4	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rent	nsubj
5	rent	rend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rent	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 instant	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 instant	amod
12	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 slaves	det
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 instant	conj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rent	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	18 steps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carrying	punct
20	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carrying	obl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 body	det
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carrying	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 body	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fainted	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fainted	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fainted	aux
32	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 man	acl:relcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 sorrow	case
34	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fainted	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 rent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rend	past	a fearful scream	the air	suddenly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
2	come up	past	the next instant and the slaves	the steps		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
3	carry	gerund	the next instant and the slaves not said here	the body of the old man	with slaves = slave	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	faint	past · perfect	the old man		from sorrow	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from sorrow=Stimulus

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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