The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 85

Then, recovering myself, I looked about me, and found that I was standing upon the side of a great hill, strewn as far as I could see on either hand with bones and tusks of elephants. "

Who acts: I · What happens: recover, look, find, stand, see · To what, where: myself, side, hand

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 recovering	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	recovering	recover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looked	advcl
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 recovering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 recovering	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 looked	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 standing	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 standing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 standing	aux
16	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 found	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 standing	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 hill	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hill	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hill	amod
23	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strewn	punct
25	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hill	amod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 far	advmod
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 strewn	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 see	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 far	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	34 hand	det
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 bones	case
36	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 see	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tusks	cc
38	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bones	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 elephants	case
40	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tusks	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	gerund	I not said here	myself		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
2	look	past	I				about me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about i=Theme
3	find	past	I not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past · progressive	I		the side of a great hill			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon side=Location
5	see	could	I		either hand		with bones and tusks of elephants	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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