The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 30

This sight gave me great pleasure, but my delight was speedily damped when I saw also numbers of horrible snakes so long and so large that the smallest of them could have swallowed an elephant with ease.

Who acts: sight, I, my · What happens: give, damp, see, swallow, delight · To what, where: great pleasure, me, delight, numbers, smallest

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 (sight, I, my), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pleasure	amod
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 damped	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 damped	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 delight	nmod:poss
10	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 damped	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 damped	aux:pass
12	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	13 damped	advmod
13	damped	damp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 damped	advcl
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 numbers	advmod
18	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 snakes	case
20	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 snakes	amod
21	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 numbers	nmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 saw	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 large	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 large	advmod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 damped	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 swallowed	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 smallest	det
29	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 swallowed	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 smallest	nmod
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 swallowed	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 swallowed	aux
34	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 large	advcl
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 elephant	det
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swallowed	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 ease	case
38	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swallowed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	this sight	great pleasure	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pleasure=Theme
2	damp	past · passive		my delight		speedily property	tree rules
3	see	past	I	numbers of horrible snakes		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
4	swallow	could · perfect · passive		the smallest of numbers		with ease	tree rules
5	delight		my				nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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