The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 84

It seemed to me a long time before I was once more set upon my feet by the elephant, and I stood as if in a dream watching the herd, which turned and trampled off in another direction, and were soon hidden in the dense underwood.

Who acts: It, I, herd · What happens: seem, be, stand, watch, turn, trample off · To what, where: me, herd, dream, direction, dense underwood

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 (It, I, herd), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl:unmarked
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 set	cop
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 set	advmod
13	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	obl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 elephant	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 elephant	det
19	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stood	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 watching	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 watching	mark
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 dream	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 dream	det
28	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watching	obl
29	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stood	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 herd	det
31	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 watching	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 turned	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 turned	nsubj
34	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 herd	acl:relcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 trampled	cc
36	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 turned	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 trampled	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 direction	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	40 direction	det
40	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 trampled	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hidden	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hidden	cc
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 hidden	aux:pass
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 hidden	advmod
45	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 stood	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 underwood	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 underwood	det
48	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 underwood	amod
49	underwood	underwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hidden	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		me		time		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	I					upon my feet; by the elephant; set property	tree rules
3	stand	past	I						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	gerund	I not said here	the herd		a dream			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
5	turn	past	the herd						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	trample off	participle	the herd not said here			another direction			tree rules
7	hide	past · passive	I not said here			the dense underwood		soon property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: in underwood=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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