The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 7

I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking stood before it, and gazed at it in astonishment, for it seemed to me the most wonderful building I had ever beheld.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: make, stand, gaze, seem, behold · To what, where: haste, wonderful building, me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 haste	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 haste	det
5	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 could	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 miles	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 miles	det
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stood	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 walking	case
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 walking	amod
15	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 miles	nmod
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gazed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gazed	cc
21	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gazed	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 astonishment	case
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gazed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 seemed	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seemed	nsubj
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gazed	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 seemed	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 building	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 wonderful	advmod
34	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 building	amod
35	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seemed	obj
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 beheld	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 beheld	aux
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 beheld	advmod
39	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 building	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	I						vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	I not said here			haste	after some miles of hard walking		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location
3	gaze	past	I not said here					in astonishment; at haste	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	seem	past	it	the wonderful building	me				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Attribute
5	behold	past · perfect	I	the wonderful building not said here			ever		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer building=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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