The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 13

I rushed to and fro like one distracted, uttering cries of despair, and when from the shore I saw the vessel under full sail just disappearing upon the horizon, I wished bitterly enough that I had been content to stay at home in safety.

Who acts: I, full sail, despair · What happens: rush, fro, distract, utter, see, disappear · To what, where: one, cries, vessel, shore, enough, content

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, full sail, despair), 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 rushed	nsubj
2	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	too	ADV	Typo=Yes	2 rushed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fro	cc
5	fro	fro	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 rushed	conj
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 distracted	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 distracted	nsubj:pass
8	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 fro	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 uttering	punct
10	uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 distracted	advcl
11	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 uttering	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 despair	case
13	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cries	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 shore	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shore	det
19	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rushed	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 vessel	det
23	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 sail	case
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sail	amod
26	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obl
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 disappearing	advmod
28	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 sail	acl
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 horizon	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horizon	det
31	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 disappearing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wished	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wished	nsubj
34	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
35	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	34 wished	advmod
36	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wished	obj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 content	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 content	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 content	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 content	cop
41	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wished	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 stay	mark
43	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 content	acl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 home	case
45	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stay	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 safety	case
47	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 home	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rush	past	I				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fro	infinitive	I not said here				tree rules
3	distract	participle · passive		one			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	utter speech: other	gerund		cries of despair			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
5	see	past	I	the vessel	the shore	under full sail	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus
6	disappear	gerund	full sail not said here			upon the horizon	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	wish	past	I	enough		bitterly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot enough=Theme
8	is a	past · perfect	I	content			tree rules
9	stay	to-infinitive	I not said here		home in safety		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
10	cry		despair				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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