The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 91

There was a moment of breathless suspense, then one bird loosed its hold and the huge block of stone hurtled through the air, but thanks to the presence of mind of the helmsman, who turned our ship violently in another direction, it fell into the sea close beside us, cleaving it asunder till we could nearly see the bottom.

Who acts: moment, one bird, helmsman, bird, we · What happens: be, loose, hurtle, turn, fall, cleave · To what, where: hold, huge block, air, ship, thanks, sea

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 (moment, one bird, helmsman, bird), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 suspense	case
6	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 suspense	amod
7	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moment	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loosed	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 loosed	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bird	nummod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loosed	nsubj
12	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hold	nmod:poss
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loosed	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 block	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 block	det
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 block	amod
18	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 stone	case
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 block	nmod
21	hurtled	hurtle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 block	acl
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hurtled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fell	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 fell	cc
27	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fell	obl:unmarked
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 presence	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 presence	det
30	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thanks	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 mind	case
32	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 presence	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 helmsman	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 helmsman	det
35	helmsman	helmsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mind	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turned	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 turned	nsubj
38	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 helmsman	acl:relcl
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 ship	nmod:poss
40	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obj
41	violently	violently	ADV	_	38 turned	advmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 direction	case
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 direction	det
44	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thanks	punct
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fell	nsubj
47	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 loosed	conj
48	into	into	ADP	_	50 sea	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sea	det
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fell	obl
51	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fell	xcomp
52	beside	beside	ADP	_	53 us	case
53	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 close	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 cleaving	punct
55	cleaving	cleave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 fell	advcl
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 cleaving	obj
57	asunder	asunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 cleaving	obj
58	till	till	SCONJ	_	62 see	mark
59	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 see	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 see	aux
61	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	62 see	advmod
62	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 cleaving	advcl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 bottom	det
64	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 see	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a moment of breathless suspense		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	loose	past	one bird	bird's hold and the huge block of stone		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hold=Patient
3	hurtle	participle		the huge block of stone not said here	the air			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory
4	turn	past	the helmsman	our ship			in another direction; violently property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent ship=Patient in direction=Topic
5	fall	past	bird	thanks to the presence of mind of the helmsman			into the sea result; close property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
6	cleave	gerund	bird not said here	bird				vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Patient asunder=Result
7	see	could	we	the bottom			nearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bottom=Stimulus
8	hold		bird					nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	mind			the helmsman				nom mind «cognition 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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