The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 32

All day long I wandered up and down the valley, and when it grew dusk I crept into a little cave, and having blocked up the entrance to it with a stone, I ate part of my little store of food and lay down to sleep, but all through the night the serpents crawled to and fro, hissing horribly, so that I could scarcely close my eyes for terror.

Who acts: I, valley, serpents · What happens: wander, grow, creep, block up, eat, lay down · To what, where: valley, little cave, entrance, part, eyes

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, valley, serpents), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wandered	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 down	cc
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 up	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grew	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	parataxis
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 crept	nsubj
18	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	22 cave	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cave	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cave	amod
22	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blocked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 blocked	cc
25	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 blocked	aux
26	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wandered	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 blocked	compound:prt
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 entrance	det
29	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blocked	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 blocked	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 stone	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blocked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ate	punct
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ate	nsubj
37	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	parataxis
38	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ate	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 store	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 store	nmod:poss
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 store	amod
42	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 part	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 food	case
44	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 store	nmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lay	cc
46	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 ate	conj
47	down	down	ADV	_	46 lay	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 sleep	mark
49	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 lay	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 crawled	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 crawled	cc
52	all	all	ADV	_	58 crawled	advmod
53	through	through	ADP	_	55 night	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 night	det
55	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 crawled	obl
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 serpents	det
57	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 crawled	nsubj
58	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	parataxis
59	to	to	ADP	_	58 crawled	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 fro	cc
61	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 crawled	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 hissing	punct
63	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	61 fro	advcl
64	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	63 hissing	advmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 close	punct
66	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	71 close	mark
67	that	that	SCONJ	_	66 so	fixed
68	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 close	nsubj
69	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	71 close	aux
70	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	71 close	advmod
71	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 fro	conj
72	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 eyes	nmod:poss
73	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 close	obj
74	for	for	ADP	_	75 terror	case
75	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 close	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	I	the valley			day	long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past	valley				dusk		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	past	I			a little cave			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Destination
4	block up	gerund · perfect	I not said here	the entrance	valley			with a stone	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent entrance=Destination with stone=Theme
5	eat	past	I	part of my little store of food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient
6	lay down	infinitive	I not said here					down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	sleep	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	crawl	past	the serpents				night	all property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	fro	infinitive	the serpents not said here						tree rules
10	hiss	gerund	the serpents not said here					horribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	close	could	I	my eyes				for terror; scarcely property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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