The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 44

Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of the faggots, but happily for me they held together, and when it grew light my enemy retired, baffled and hungry, to his den.

Who acts: moment, entrance, faggots · What happens: fear, succeed, push, hold together, grow, retire · To what, where: some, light enemy · 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 (moment, entrance, faggots), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 moment	det
2	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feared	nsubj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feared	nsubj
4	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 succeed	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 succeed	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 succeed	aux
8	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feared	ccomp
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 pushing	mark
10	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 succeed	advcl
11	aside	aside	ADV	_	10 pushing	advmod
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 pushing	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 faggots	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 faggots	det
15	faggots	faggot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 some	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 held	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 held	cc
18	happily	happily	ADV	_	22 held	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 happily	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 held	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 grew	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 grew	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feared	conj
29	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 enemy	amod
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 enemy	nmod:poss
31	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obj
32	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 enemy	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 baffled	punct
34	baffled	baffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 enemy	acl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hungry	cc
36	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 baffled	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 den	punct
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 den	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 den	nmod:poss
40	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	past	every moment			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	succeed	would	entrance			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	gerund	entrance not said here	some	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	hold together	past	faggots = faggot		happily, together property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past	entrance	my light enemy	to snake's den result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient enemy=Extent to den=Result
6	retire	participle		my light enemy not said here		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	baffle	participle		my light enemy not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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