The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 59

Once the channel became so small that I had a narrow escape of being crushed against the rocky roof, and after that I took the precaution of lying flat upon my precious bales.

Who acts: channel, I, precaution · What happens: become, have, crush, take, lie · To what, where: narrow escape, precaution, precious bales

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 (channel, I, precaution), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 channel	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 channel	det
3	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 escape	det
11	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 escape	amod
12	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 crushed	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 crushed	aux:pass
15	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 escape	acl
16	against	against	ADP	_	19 roof	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
18	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 roof	amod
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crushed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 took	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 precaution	det
27	precaution	precaution	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 lying	mark
29	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 precaution	acl
30	flat	flat	ADV	_	29 lying	advmod
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 bales	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bales	nmod:poss
33	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bales	amod
34	bales	bale	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lying	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the channel				small property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	I	a narrow escape				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient
3	crush	gerund · passive		a narrow escape not said here			against the rocky roof	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»
4	take	past	I	the precaution		after that		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme
5	lie	gerund	the precaution not said here		my precious bales		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bale=Location

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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