The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 40

When night came I fell asleep, but only to be awakened once more by the terrible snake, which after hissing horribly round the tree at last reared itself up against it, and finding my sleeping comrade who was perched just below me, it swallowed him also, and crawled away leaving me half dead with terror.

Who acts: night, I, terrible snake, last, tree · What happens: come, fall, awaken, hiss, rear up, find · To what, where: tree, sleeping comrade, snake, me

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 (night, I, terrible snake, last), 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	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 swallowed	advcl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fell	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 awakened	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 awakened	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 awakened	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 awakened	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 awakened	aux:pass
12	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	conj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 awakened	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 snake	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snake	det
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 snake	amod
18	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 awakened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hissing	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hissing	nsubj
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 hissing	mark
22	hissing	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 snake	acl
23	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	22 hissing	advmod
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hissing	obl
27	at	at	SCONJ	_	29 reared	mark
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reared	nsubj
29	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 awakened	advcl
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 reared	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 reared	compound:prt
32	against	against	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 reared	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 finding	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 finding	cc
36	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 comrade	nmod:poss
38	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 comrade	amod
39	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 finding	obj
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 perched	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 perched	aux:pass
42	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 comrade	acl:relcl
43	just	just	ADV	_	45 me	advmod
44	below	below	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 perched	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 swallowed	nsubj
48	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 swallowed	obj
50	also	also	ADV	_	48 swallowed	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 crawled	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 crawled	cc
53	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 swallowed	conj
54	away	away	ADV	_	53 crawled	advmod
55	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 crawled	advcl
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 leaving	obj
57	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	58 dead	advmod
58	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 leaving	xcomp
59	with	with	ADP	_	60 terror	case
60	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 dead	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	night			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past	I		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	awaken	to-infinitive · passive	the terrible snake			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hiss	gerund	the terrible snake		round the tree; horribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	rear up	past	last	tree	against tree	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
6	find	gerund	night not said here	my sleeping comrade		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Topic
7	sleep	gerund				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	perch	past · passive		my sleeping comrade	below me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme below i=Destination
9	swallow	past	tree	snake		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
10	crawl away	past	tree not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	leave	gerund	tree not said here	me	dead property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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.

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