The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 18

As it was impossible to climb it--for it presented no foot-hold--I walked round about it seeking some opening, but there was none.

Who acts: height, I, none · What happens: be, climb, present, walk, seek · To what, where: height, foot hold, opening

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 (height, I, none), 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	_	4 impossible	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	csubj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 climb	obj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 presented	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 presented	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 presented	nsubj
11	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 hold	det
13	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 foot	punct
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presented	obj
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 walked	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 walked	nsubj
18	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 presented	conj
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 walked	advmod
20	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 seeking	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seeking	nsubj
22	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 walked	advcl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 opening	det
24	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seeking	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
29	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	28 was	nsubj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				impossible property	tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive		height			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	present	past	height	no foot hold			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	walk	past	I			round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	gerund	height	some opening			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Theme
6	be	past	none		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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