The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 48

My dismay was great, for it seemed to me that to be buried alive was even a worse fate than to be devoured by cannibals, nevertheless there was no escape.

Who acts: dismay, it, cannibals, escape, My · What happens: be, seem, bury, devour, dismay · To what, where: great worse fate

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 (dismay, it, cannibals, escape), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dismay	nmod:poss
2	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 great	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	cop
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fate	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 seemed	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 seemed	xcomp
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 me	nmod:unmarked
12	to	to	PART	_	14 buried	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 buried	aux:pass
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 seemed	advcl
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 buried	xcomp
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fate	cop
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 fate	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fate	det
19	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 fate	amod
20	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 devoured	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	24 devoured	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 devoured	aux:pass
24	devoured	devour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fate	advcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 cannibals	case
26	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 devoured	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
28	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	30 was	advmod
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fate	parataxis
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 escape	det
32	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 was	nsubj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 fate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	My dismay			great property	tree rules
2	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	bury	to-infinitive · passive				alive property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	is a	past		a great worse fate			tree rules
5	devour	to-infinitive · passive	cannibals				vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	be	past	no escape		there	nevertheless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dismay		My				nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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