The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 23

Things were thus going prosperously with me when it happened that the wife of one of my neighbours, with whom I had struck up quite a friendship, fell ill, and presently died.

Who acts: Things, it, I · What happens: go, happen, strike up, fall, die · To what, where: wife, friendship

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, it, I), 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	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	prosperously	prosperously	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 happened	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wife	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wife	det
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happened	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 wife	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 neighbours	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbours	nmod:poss
18	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whom	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happened	conj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 struck	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 struck	aux
24	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 whom	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 struck	compound:prt
26	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	28 friendship	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 friendship	det
28	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 struck	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 struck	parataxis
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fell	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 died	cc
34	presently	presently	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fell	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Things		with me; prosperously, thus property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary
2	happen	past	it	the wife of one of my neighbours		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	strike up	past · perfect	I	quite friendship		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Patient
4	fall	past			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	past			presently property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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