The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 10

When at last we came to ourselves the giant sat examining us attentively with his fearful eye.

Who acts: we, giant · What happens: come, sit, examine · To what, where: ourselves, last, us

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, giant), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	obl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 ourselves	case
7	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 came	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	examining	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 sat	xcomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 examining	obj
13	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	11 examining	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 eye	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eye	nmod:poss
16	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eye	amod
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 examining	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	we		ourselves	last		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ourselves=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	the giant					tree rules
3	examine	gerund	the giant not said here	us			with giant's fearful eye; attentively property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/10/