The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 47

If only my wife's little finger ached I fancied she was going to die, and sure enough before very long she fell really ill and in a few days breathed her last.

Who acts: little finger, I, finger · What happens: ache, fancy, go, die, fall, breathe · To what, where: last

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 (little finger, I, finger), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 ached	mark
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 wife	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finger	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wife	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 finger	amod
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ached	nsubj
8	ached	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fancied	advcl
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 fancied	nsubj
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fancied	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 die	mark
15	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sure	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sure	cc
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fancied	conj
19	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 sure	advmod
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 fell	mark
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 fell	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fell	nsubj
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sure	ccomp
25	really	really	ADV	_	26 ill	advmod
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fell	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 breathed	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 days	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 days	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 days	amod
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 breathed	obl
32	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 last	nmod:poss
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 breathed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ache a condition, not said to happen	past	my wife's little finger				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fancy	past	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · progressive	finger				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	die	to-infinitive	finger not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	fall	past	finger			ill, long property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	breathe	past	finger not said here	finger's last	day		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=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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