The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

When he had reached a prodigious height, he next darted back to earth, and alighted on the terrace belonging to a castle, shaking me violently out of the saddle as he did so, and giving me such a blow with his tail, that he knocked out my right eye.

Who acts: animal, terrace · What happens: reach, dart back, alight, belong, shake, do · To what, where: prodigious height, earth, terrace, me, saddle, blow

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, terrace), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 darted	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 height	det
6	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 height	amod
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 darted	nsubj
10	next	next	ADV	_	11 darted	advmod
11	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 darted	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 earth	case
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 darted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 alighted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 alighted	cc
17	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 darted	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 terrace	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 terrace	det
20	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 alighted	obl
21	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 terrace	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 belonging	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shaking	punct
26	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 belonging	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 shaking	obj
28	violently	violently	ADV	_	26 shaking	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 saddle	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 saddle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 saddle	det
32	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shaking	obl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 did	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 did	nsubj
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shaking	advcl
36	so	so	ADV	_	35 did	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 knocked	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 knocked	cc
39	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 knocked	csubj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 giving	iobj
41	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 blow	det:predet
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 blow	det
43	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 giving	obj
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 tail	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 tail	nmod:poss
46	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 giving	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 knocked	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 knocked	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 knocked	nsubj
50	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 darted	conj
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 knocked	compound:prt
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 eye	nmod:poss
53	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 eye	amod
54	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 knocked	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 darted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	animal	a prodigious height				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme
2	dart back	past	animal			earth	next property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination
3	alight	participle	animal not said here			the terrace		tree rules
4	belong	gerund	the terrace not said here				to a castle	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	shake	gerund	the terrace not said here	me		the saddle	violently property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out saddle=Trajectory
6	do	past	animal					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give	gerund		such blow	me		with animal's tail	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blow=Theme
8	knock out	past	animal	my right eye				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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