The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 75

Thus arguing against my own conscience, I turned the key, when a smell rushed out that, pleasant though it was, overcame me completely, and I fell fainting across the threshold.

Who acts: I, smell · What happens: argue, turn, rush out, be, fall, faint · To what, where: key, smell, threshold

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, smell), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 arguing	advmod
2	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 turned	advcl
3	against	against	ADP	_	6 conscience	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 conscience	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 conscience	amod
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arguing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 arguing	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 key	det
11	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pleasant	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 pleasant	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 smell	det
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pleasant	nsubj
16	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 smell	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 rushed	compound:prt
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 rushed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pleasant	punct
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 key	conj
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 overcame	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 overcame	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 overcame	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 overcame	punct
25	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pleasant	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 overcame	obj
27	completely	completely	ADV	_	25 overcame	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
32	fainting	faint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 fell	xcomp
33	across	across	ADP	_	35 threshold	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 threshold	det
35	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fainting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	gerund	I not said here			against my own conscience; thus property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	past	I	the key			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent key=Theme
3	rush out	participle	a smell not said here	a smell			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory
4	is	past	smell			completely, overcome property	tree rules
5	fall	past	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	faint	gerund	I not said here		the threshold		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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