The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 37

Suddenly we were aroused by a loud rustling noise, and starting up, saw that it was caused by an immense snake which was gliding towards us over the sand.

Who acts: loud rustling noise, immense snake · What happens: arouse, start up, see, cause, glide · To what, where: we, hunger, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (loud rustling noise, immense snake), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 aroused	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 aroused	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aroused	aux:pass
4	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 noise	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 noise	det
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noise	amod
8	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noise	compound
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 aroused	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
12	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 saw	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 starting	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starting	punct
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 aroused	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 caused	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caused	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 caused	aux:pass
19	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saw	ccomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 snake	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 snake	det
22	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 snake	amod
23	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caused	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 gliding	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gliding	aux
26	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 snake	acl:relcl
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 gliding	obl
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 sand	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sand	det
31	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gliding	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 aroused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arouse	past · passive	a loud rustling noise	we		suddenly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	start up	gerund					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	see	past	a loud rustling noise not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	cause	past · passive	a immense snake	hunger			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
5	glide	past · progressive	a immense snake		the sand	towards us	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards we=Source over sand=Trajectory

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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