The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 17

As I drew near it seemed to me to be a white ball of immense size and height, and when I could touch it, I found it marvellously smooth and soft.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: draw, seem, be, touch, find · To what, where: me, white ball, height

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, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 seemed	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	nsubj
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	13 ball	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ball	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seemed	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 size	case
15	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 size	amod
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ball	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 height	cc
18	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 size	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 touch	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 touch	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 touch	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 touch	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 touch	aux
24	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drew	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 touch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	obj
30	marvellously	marvellously	ADV	_	31 smooth	advmod
31	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 found	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 soft	cc
33	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 smooth	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	I				tree rules
2	seem	past	it		me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		a white ball		of immense size and height	tree rules
4	touch	could	I	height			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
5	find	past	I	height		smooth property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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