The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 91

So they were soon fat and there was an end of them, but I grew leaner day by day, for I ate but little, and even that little did me no good by reason of my fear of what lay before me.

Who acts: companions, end, I, my · What happens: be, grow, eat, do, lay, fear · To what, where: me, reason

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 (companions, end, I, my), 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	_	5 fat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fat	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fat	cop
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fat	advmod
5	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fat	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 end	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fat	advcl
17	leaner	lean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl:unmarked
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ate	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 ate	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ate	nsubj
24	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 little	cc
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ate	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
29	even	even	ADV	_	31 little	advmod
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 little	nsubj
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 did	xcomp
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 did	obj
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 good	advmod
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 did	xcomp
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 reason	case
37	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 did	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 fear	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 fear	nmod:poss
40	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reason	nmod
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 what	case
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 fear	nmod
43	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 what	acl:relcl
44	before	before	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 lay	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	companions = companion				fat, soon property	tree rules
2	be	past	a end of companions		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	I			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	I					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do	past	I not said here	me			by reason of my fear of reason of my fear of reason; good, little property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality
6	lay	present				before me		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before i=Destination
7	fear		my	reason of my fear of reason of my fear				nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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