The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 29

As I wandered about, seeking anxiously for some means of escaping from this trap, I observed that the ground was strewed with diamonds, some of them of an astonishing size.

Who acts: I · What happens: wander, seek, mean, escape, observe, strew · To what, where: trap, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 wandered	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 means	nsubj
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 wandered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seeking	punct
6	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wandered	advcl
7	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	6 seeking	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 some	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 seeking	obl
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 escaping	mark
12	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 means	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 trap	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trap	det
15	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 escaping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 observed	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 observed	nsubj
18	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 means	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 strewed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strewed	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 strewed	aux:pass
23	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 observed	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 diamonds	case
25	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 strewed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 size	punct
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 size	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 some	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 size	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 size	det
32	astonishing	astonish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 size	amod
33	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 diamonds	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	I			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	gerund	I not said here			for some; anxiously property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for some=Theme
3	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	escape	gerund			this trap		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from trap=Initial_Location
5	observe	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	strew	past · passive		the ground		with diamonds and a astonishing size	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diamond=Theme
7	astonish	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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