The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 61

Turning to the place from which the sound came I dimly saw a shadowy form which fled at my movement, squeezing itself through a cranny in the wall.

Who acts: sound, I, shadowy form, my · What happens: turn, come, see, flee, squeeze, move · To what, where: place, shadowy form, movement, form, cranny

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 (sound, I, shadowy form, my), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 came	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 place	acl:relcl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
11	dimly	dimly	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 form	det
14	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	amod
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fled	nsubj
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 form	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 movement	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 movement	nmod:poss
20	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 squeezing	punct
22	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 fled	advcl
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 squeezing	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 cranny	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cranny	det
26	cranny	cranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 squeezing	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 wall	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wall	det
29	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cranny	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Turning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund			the place		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory
2	come	past	the sound		the place		tree rules
3	see	past	I	a shadowy form		dimly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus
4	flee	past	a shadowy form		my movement		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	squeeze	gerund	a shadowy form not said here	form	a cranny in the wall		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme through cranny=Trajectory
6	move		my				nom movement «act 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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