The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 92

We had hardly time to draw a breath of relief before the other rock fell with a mighty crash right in the midst of our luckless vessel, smashing it into a thousand fragments, and crushing, or hurling into the sea, passengers and crew.

Who acts: We, other rock · What happens: have, draw, fall, smash, crush, hurl · To what, where: breath, midst, rock, thousand fragments, 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 (We, other rock), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 breath	det
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 draw	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 relief	case
10	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breath	nmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 fell	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rock	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rock	amod
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 draw	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 crash	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 crash	det
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crash	amod
19	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	right	right	ADV	_	23 midst	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 midst	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 midst	det
23	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 vessel	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 vessel	nmod:poss
26	luckless	luckless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 vessel	amod
27	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 midst	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 smashing	punct
29	smashing	smash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fell	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 smashing	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 fragments	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thousand	det
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 fragments	nummod
34	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 smashing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crushing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 crushing	cc
37	crushing	crush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hurling	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 hurling	cc
40	hurling	hurl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 crushing	advcl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hurling	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 passengers	punct
45	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 sea	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 crew	cc
47	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sea	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	draw	to-infinitive	We not said here	a breath of relief				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	fall	past	the other rock		the midst of our luckless vessel		with a mighty crash	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location
4	smash	gerund	the other rock not said here	rock	thousand fragments			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into fragment=Destination
5	crush	gerund	We not said here					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	hurl	gerund	We not said here		the sea and passengers and crew			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into sea=Destination

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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