The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 9

But instead of allowing himself to be set upon his feet (even now it makes me laugh to think of it!), this creature who had seemed to me so decrepit leaped nimbly upon my shoulders, and hooking his legs round my neck gripped me so tightly that I was well-nigh choked, and so overcome with terror that I fell insensible to the ground.

Who acts: creature, bank, me, hooking, terror · What happens: allow, set, make, laugh, think, have · To what, where: man, feet, me, decrepit, shoulders, legs

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 (creature, bank, me, hooking), 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	_	4 allowing	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 allowing	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 seemed	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 allowing	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 set	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 set	aux:pass
8	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allowing	ccomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 feet	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 set	obl
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 now	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 makes	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	nsubj
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 set	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 makes	obj
18	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 makes	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 laugh	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 think	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 laugh	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 makes	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 allowing	punct
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 creature	det
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	nsubj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 creature	acl:relcl
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 seemed	obl
33	so	so	SCONJ	_	34 decrepit	case
34	decrepit	decrepit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	obl
35	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 decrepit	acl
36	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	35 leaped	advmod
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 shoulders	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 shoulders	nmod:poss
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 leaped	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 gripped	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 gripped	cc
42	hooking	hook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 gripped	csubj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 legs	nmod:poss
44	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hooking	obj
45	round	round	ADP	_	47 neck	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 neck	nmod:poss
47	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hooking	obl
48	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seemed	conj
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 gripped	obj
50	so	so	ADV	_	51 tightly	advmod
51	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	48 gripped	advmod
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 choked	mark
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 choked	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 choked	aux:pass
55	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	58 choked	advmod
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 well	punct
57	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	58 choked	advmod
58	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 gripped	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 terror	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 terror	cc
61	so	so	ADV	_	62 overcome	advmod
62	overcome	overcome	ADV	_	64 terror	advmod
63	with	with	ADP	_	64 terror	case
64	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	parataxis
65	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 fell	nsubj
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	67 fell	nsubj
67	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 terror	acl:relcl
68	insensible	insensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 fell	xcomp
69	to	to	ADP	_	71 ground	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 ground	det
71	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 fell	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	gerund	this creature not said here	man					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer himself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	set not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	this creature not said here			man's feet			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: upon foot=Destination
3	make	present	bank	me			now		tree rules
4	laugh	infinitive	me not said here						tree rules
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	me not said here					of bank	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	this creature						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	seem	past	this creature		me			so decrepit	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
8	leap	participle		decrepit not said here		my shoulders		nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Trajectory
9	hook	gerund		man's legs		my neck			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Theme round neck=Destination
10	grip	past	hooking	me				tightly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Experiencer
11	choke	past · passive		I				nigh, well property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
12	fall	past	terror					to the ground; insensible property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

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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