The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 27

When I had looked about me I began to doubt if I had gained anything by quitting the desolate island.

Who acts: I · What happens: look, begin, doubt, gain, quit, desolate · To what, where: anything, desolate island

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), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	aux
4	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 began	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 doubt	mark
10	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 gained	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gained	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gained	aux
14	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 doubt	ccomp
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 gained	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 quitting	mark
17	quitting	quit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 anything	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
19	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 island	compound
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quitting	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past · perfect	I		about me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about i=Theme
2	begin	past	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	doubt	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	gain a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	anything		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
5	quit	gerund		the desolate island		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Source
6	desolate	infinitive				tree rules

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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