The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 60

Several times did I have recourse to this desperate expedient, and I know not how long I had been a prisoner when one day I fancied that I heard something near me, which breathed loudly.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, not know, be, fancy, hear, breathe · To what, where: recourse, prisoner, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 times	amod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obl:unmarked
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 expedient	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 expedient	det
9	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 expedient	amod
10	expedient	expedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 long	advmod
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 prisoner	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 prisoner	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 prisoner	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 prisoner	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 prisoner	det
22	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	ccomp
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 fancied	advmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 day	nummod
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fancied	obl:unmarked
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fancied	nsubj
27	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 heard	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 heard	nsubj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fancied	advcl
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 heard	obj
32	near	near	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 something	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 breathed	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 breathed	nsubj
36	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 something	conj
37	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	36 breathed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	I	recourse	time	to this desperate expedient	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient
2	not know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is a	past · perfect	I	a prisoner		long property	tree rules
4	fancy	past	I		day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	past	I	something		near me	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
6	breathe	past				loudly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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