The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 77

I lost no time in letting fly several arrows, and at last one of the great animals fell to the ground dead, and the others retreated, leaving me free to come down from my hiding place and run back to tell my master of my success, for which I was praised and regaled with good things.

Who acts: I, last one, others, me · What happens: lose, let, fly, fall, retreat, leave · To what, where: several arrows, me, hiding place, master, I · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, last one, others, me), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 letting	mark
6	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lost	advcl
7	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 letting	xcomp
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 arrows	amod
9	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 one	case
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 one	amod
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 animals	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 animals	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 animals	amod
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fell	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 retreated	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 retreated	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 retreated	nsubj
28	retreated	retreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 leaving	punct
30	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 retreated	advcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 leaving	obj
32	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 leaving	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 come	mark
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 free	xcomp
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 come	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 place	case
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 place	nmod:poss
38	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 place	compound
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 come	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 run	cc
41	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	conj
42	back	back	ADV	_	41 run	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 tell	mark
44	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 run	advcl
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 master	nmod:poss
46	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tell	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 success	case
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 success	nmod:poss
49	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 master	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 praised	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 praised	obl
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 praised	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 praised	aux:pass
55	praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 tell	advcl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 regaled	cc
57	regaled	regale	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 praised	conj
58	with	with	ADP	_	60 things	case
59	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 things	amod
60	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 regaled	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	I			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	gerund	I not said here					tree rules
3	fly	present	I not said here	several arrows				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arrow=Theme
4	fall	past	last one of the great animals				to the ground; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
5	retreat	past	the others					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	leave	gerund	the others not said here	me			free property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	come down	to-infinitive	me not said here		my hiding place		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location
8	run back	infinitive	me not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	me not said here	my master of my success				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
10	praise	past · passive		I				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute
11	regale	participle					with good things	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with thing=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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