The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 53

Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.

Who acts: way, we, good luck · What happens: lie, infest, have, escape, come · To what, where: high mountains, good luck, mountains, last

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 (way, we, good luck), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 way	nmod:poss
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mountains	amod
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
7	infested	infest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 mountains	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 serpents	case
9	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 serpents	amod
10	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 infested	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 luck	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 luck	amod
17	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 escape	mark
19	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 escape	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 came	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 seashore	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 seashore	det
27	seashore	seashore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 last	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Our way	high mountains		across property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme
2	infest	participle		high mountains not said here		with frightful serpents	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with serpent=Theme
3	have	past	we	the good luck			tree rules
4	escape	to-infinitive	the good luck not said here	mountains = mountain			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location
5	come	past	we not said here		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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