The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 55
I even fancied that I heard the expiring sighs of those who, like myself, had come into this dismal place alive.
Who acts: I · What happens: fancy, hear, expire, come, sigh · To what, where: expiring sighs, dismal place, those
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 fancied | advmod |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancied | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sighs | det |
| 8 | expiring | expire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sighs | amod |
| 9 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 sighs | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 those | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 myself | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 myself | case |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 heard | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 place | det |
| 21 | dismal | dismal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 come | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | I | the expiring sighs of those | like myself | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sigh=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | expire | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | I not said here | this dismal place | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | sigh | those | nom sigh «communication transitive»: 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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