The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 38

So swiftly it came that it had seized one of my comrades before he had time to fly, and in spite of his cries and struggles speedily crushed the life out of him in its mighty coils and proceeded to swallow him.

Who acts: hunger, snake · What happens: come, seize, have, fly, crush, proceed · To what, where: hunger, life, spite, snake, cries

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 (hunger, 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 swiftly	advmod
2	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 seized	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seized	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	aux
8	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	advcl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seized	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 comrades	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 comrades	nmod:poss
12	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seized	advcl
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 fly	mark
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 time	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crushed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 crushed	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 spite	case
22	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crushed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 cries	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 cries	nmod:poss
25	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spite	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 struggles	cc
27	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cries	conj
28	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	29 crushed	advmod
29	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 life	det
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crushed	obj
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 him	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crushed	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 coils	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 coils	nmod:poss
37	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 coils	amod
38	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crushed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 proceeded	cc
40	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 swallow	mark
42	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 proceeded	xcomp
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 swallow	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	hunger				swiftly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past · perfect · passive		hunger				tree rules
3	have	past	snake			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fly	to-infinitive	snake not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crush	past	hunger not said here	the life	spite of snake's cries and struggles		out snake; in hunger's mighty coils; speedily property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
6	proceed	past	hunger not said here					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	swallow	to-infinitive	hunger not said here	snake				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	spite			snake's cries and struggles				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
9	cry		snake					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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