The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 27

Uttering a terrible cry, he sprang to his feet clutching in all directions to try to seize one of us, but we had all fled different ways as soon as the deed was done, and thrown ourselves flat upon the ground in corners where he was not likely to touch us with his feet.

Who acts: number, we, deed · What happens: utter, spring, clutch, try, seize, flee · To what, where: terrible cry, feet, directions, one, different ways, ourselves

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 (number, we, deed), 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	Uttering	utter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sprang	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cry	det
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cry	amod
4	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Uttering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Uttering	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sprang	nsubj
7	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sprang	obl
11	clutching	clutch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sprang	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 directions	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 directions	det
14	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 clutching	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 clutching	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 seize	mark
18	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 seize	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fled	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 fled	cc
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fled	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fled	aux
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 fled	advmod
27	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sprang	parataxis
28	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ways	amod
29	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fled	obj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 soon	advmod
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 fled	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 done	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 deed	det
34	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 done	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 done	cop
36	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 soon	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thrown	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thrown	cc
39	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fled	conj
40	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 thrown	obj
41	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 thrown	xcomp
42	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 ground	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ground	det
44	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thrown	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 corners	case
46	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thrown	obl
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	51 likely	advmod
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 likely	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 likely	cop
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 likely	advmod
51	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 corners	acl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 touch	mark
53	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 likely	xcomp
54	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 touch	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 feet	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 feet	nmod:poss
57	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 touch	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	utter speech: other	gerund	number not said here	a terrible cry			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
2	spring	past	number		number's feet		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
3	clutch	gerund	number not said here		all directions		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	try	to-infinitive	number not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive	number not said here	one of us			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	flee	past · perfect	we	different ways		all, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Initial_Location
7	is	past	the deed			done property	tree rules
8	throw	participle	we not said here	ourselves	corners	upon the ground; flat property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme upon ground=Destination
9	not is	past	number			likely property	tree rules
10	touch	to-infinitive	number not said here	us		with number's feet	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Experiencer with foot=Instrument

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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