The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 81

No sooner did he feel the stroke, than he spread his wings (which I had not perceived before), and flew up with me straight into the sky.

Who acts: animal · What happens: feel, spread, not perceive, fly up · To what, where: stroke, wings, sky

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 (animal), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 feel	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stroke	det
7	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 spread	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spread	nsubj
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spread	obj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 perceived	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 perceived	nsubj:pass
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 perceived	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 perceived	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 perceived	advmod
19	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 spread	advcl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 perceived	advmod
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 perceived	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flew	cc
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 flew	compound:prt
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 flew	obl
28	straight	straight	ADV	_	31 sky	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 sky	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	animal	the stroke	soon property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme
2	spread	past	animal	animal's wings		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	not perceive	past · perfect · passive			before property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	fly up	past	animal not said here		into the sky result; with me	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result

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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