The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 44

I soon heard the flapping of their mighty wings above me, and had the satisfaction of feeling one of them seize upon my piece of meat, and me with it, and rise slowly towards his nest, into which he presently dropped me.

Who acts: I, satisfaction, one, way · What happens: hear, have, feel, seize, rise, drop · To what, where: flapping, satisfaction, nest, me, mighty wings

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, satisfaction, one, way), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 heard	advmod
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flapping	det
5	flapping	flapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 wings	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wings	nmod:poss
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wings	amod
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flapping	nmod
10	above	above	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wings	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 satisfaction	det
16	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 feeling	mark
18	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 satisfaction	acl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 seize	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 feeling	ccomp
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 piece	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 piece	nmod:poss
25	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seize	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 meat	case
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 piece	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 me	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 me	cc
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 me	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rise	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rise	cc
35	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
36	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	35 rise	advmod
37	towards	towards	ADP	_	39 nest	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nest	nmod:poss
39	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rise	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dropped	punct
41	into	into	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 dropped	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 dropped	nsubj
44	presently	presently	ADV	_	45 dropped	advmod
45	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 dropped	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	I	the flapping of eagles's mighty wings above me		me obl; soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flapping=Stimulus
2	have	past	I not said here	the satisfaction			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Patient
3	feel	gerund	the satisfaction not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	seize	present	one of eagles			upon my piece of meat	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	rise	infinitive	I not said here		way's nest	slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards nest=Initial_Location
6	drop	past	way	me		presently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into which=Destination
7	flap			eagles's mighty wings above me			nom flapping «event transitive»: of=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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