The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 51

But luckily for me the fancy took me to stand once more beside the river where it plunged out of sight in the depths of the cavern, and as I did so an idea struck me.

Who acts: me, last, I, idea · What happens: take, stand, plunge, do, strike · To what, where: me, river, sight

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 (me, last, I, idea), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
2	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	4 me	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 took	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fancy	det
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 me	obl:unmarked
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 took	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stand	mark
10	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 took	advcl
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 stand	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 stand	advmod
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stand	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 plunged	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 plunged	nsubj
18	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 river	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 sight	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sight	case
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plunged	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 depths	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 depths	det
24	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 plunged	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 cavern	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cavern	det
27	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 depths	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
33	so	so	ADV	_	36 struck	advmod
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 idea	det
35	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 struck	nsubj
36	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 did	advcl
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 struck	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	me		me			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	stand	to-infinitive	me not said here			the river	once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside river=Location
3	plunge	past	last			sight	in the depths of the cavern	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in depth=Attribute
4	do	past	I					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	strike	past	a idea	me				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument

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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