The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 64

When I was sure that I was not dreaming, I realised that it was doubtless some little animal which had found its way into the cavern from the sea, and when disturbed had fled, showing me a means of escape which I could never have discovered for myself.

Who acts: I, glimmer, a · What happens: be, not dream, realise, find, disturb, flee · To what, where: little animal, cavern, me, escape

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, glimmer, a), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sure	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 dreaming	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 dreaming	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dreaming	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 dreaming	advmod
9	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 realised	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dreaming	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 realised	nsubj
12	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	ccomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 doubtless	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doubtless	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 doubtless	cop
16	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 realised	xcomp
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 animal	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animal	amod
19	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 doubtless	appos
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 found	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	aux
22	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 animal	acl:relcl
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 way	nmod:poss
24	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 cavern	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cavern	det
27	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cavern	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fled	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fled	cc
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 disturbed	mark
34	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 fled	advcl
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fled	aux
36	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sure	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 showing	punct
38	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 fled	conj
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 showing	iobj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 means	nsubj
41	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 showing	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 escape	case
43	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 means	obl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 discovered	obj
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 discovered	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 discovered	aux
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	49 discovered	advmod
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 discovered	aux
49	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 escape	acl:relcl
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 myself	case
51	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	49 discovered	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				sure property	tree rules
2	not dream	past · progressive	I					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	realise	past	I					tree rules
4	is	past	glimmer				doubtless property	tree rules
5	find	past · perfect · passive		some little animal		the cavern from the sea		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute
6	disturb	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	flee	past · perfect						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	show	gerund			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
9	mean	present	a				of escape	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
10	not discover	could · perfect	I	escape			for myself	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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