The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 4

However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more wandered among the trees, but always with some anxiety as to what I might see next.

Who acts: morning sunlight, I · What happens: restore, wander, see · To what, where: courage, trees, anxiety

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning sunlight, 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 restored	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sunlight	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sunlight	compound
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restored	nsubj
6	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 courage	nmod:poss
8	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 restored	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wandered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wandered	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wandered	nsubj
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 wandered	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 wandered	advmod
14	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 restored	conj
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wandered	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 anxiety	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 anxiety	cc
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 anxiety	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 anxiety	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 anxiety	det
23	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wandered	obl
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 see	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 anxiety	acl
30	next	next	ADV	_	29 see	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 restored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	restore	past	the morning sunlight	my courage		however property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
2	wander	past	I		the trees	with some anxiety; once property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory
3	see	might	I	some anxiety		next property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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