The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 46

Shaking with fright and half suffocated by the poisonous breath of the monster, I came out of my tent and crawled down to the sea, feeling that it would be better to plunge from the cliffs and end my life at once than pass such another night of horror.

Who acts: I, it · What happens: shake, suffocate, come out, crawl down, feel, be · To what, where: tent, sea, cliffs, life

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 (I, it), 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	Shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 came	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 fright	case
3	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaking	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 suffocated	cc
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 suffocated	advmod
6	suffocated	suffocate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fright	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 breath	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 breath	det
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 breath	amod
10	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suffocated	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 monster	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monster	det
13	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breath	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shaking	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 tent	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tent	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tent	nmod:poss
20	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crawled	cc
22	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 crawled	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crawled	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 feeling	punct
28	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 crawled	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 better	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 better	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 better	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 better	cop
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 feeling	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 plunge	mark
35	plunge	plunge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 better	csubj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 cliffs	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 cliffs	det
38	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 plunge	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 end	cc
40	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 plunge	conj
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 end	obj
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 once	case
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	40 end	obl
45	than	than	SCONJ	_	46 pass	mark
46	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 end	advcl
47	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 night	amod
48	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	49 night	det
49	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pass	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 horror	case
51	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 night	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund	I not said here				with fright	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fright=Co-Patient
2	suffocate	participle	I not said here				by the poisonous breath of the monster; half property	vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient
3	come out	past	I	my tent				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tent=Result
4	crawl down	past	I not said here		the sea		down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination
5	feel	gerund	I not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	would	it				good property	tree rules
7	plunge	to-infinitive			the cliffs			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cliff=Initial_Location
8	end	infinitive		my life				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality
9	pass	infinitive				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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