The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 43

You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returned eager to devour me, and glided round and round my frail shelter seeking an entrance.

Who acts: You, I, snake · What happens: imagine, pass, return, devour, glide, round · To what, where: fearful night, me, frail shelter, entrance

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 (You, I, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 imagine	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 night	det
6	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 night	amod
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	obl:unmarked
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 night	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 returned	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 returned	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snake	det
13	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	nsubj
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	conj
15	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 returned	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 devour	mark
17	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eager	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 devour	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glided	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glided	cc
21	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 imagine	parataxis
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 glided	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 round	cc
24	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 glided	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shelter	nmod:poss
26	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shelter	amod
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 round	obj
28	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 round	advcl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 entrance	det
30	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seeking	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	pass	past	I	a fearful night not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme night=Trajectory
3	return	past	the snake		eager property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	devour	to-infinitive	the snake not said here	me		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	glide	participle			round property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	round	infinitive		my frail shelter		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient
7	seek	gerund		a entrance		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=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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