The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 90

When I went to the forest I found the tree newly uprooted, and the arrows lying beside it, and I feared I should never see you again.

Who acts: I, arrows · What happens: go, find, uproot, lie, fear, not see · To what, where: arrows, forest, tree, way, you · 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, arrows), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forest	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	newly	newly	ADV	_	12 uprooted	advmod
12	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tree	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 arrows	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arrows	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 arrows	det
16	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 arrows	acl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feared	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feared	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 feared	nsubj
23	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrows	acl:relcl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 feared	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 see	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I	the arrows	the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
2	find	past	I	the tree				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
3	uproot	participle		the tree not said here			newly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lie	gerund	the arrows not said here		way			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location
5	fear	past	I	the arrows not said here				tree rules
6	not see	should	I	you		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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