The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 105

I jumped up in a hurry without waiting for a lantern, and in the darkness I fell against something, which tumbled headlong down the stairs and never stopped till it reached the bottom.

Who acts: I, darkness · What happens: jump up, wait, fall, tumble, not stop, reach · To what, where: hurry, darkness, bottom

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, darkness), 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 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 jumped	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurry	det
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jumped	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 waiting	mark
8	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 jumped	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 lantern	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lantern	det
11	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waiting	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 darkness	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 darkness	det
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jumped	parataxis
19	against	against	ADP	_	20 something	case
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tumbled	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tumbled	nsubj
23	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 something	acl:relcl
24	headlong	headlong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tumbled	xcomp
25	down	down	ADP	_	27 stairs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stairs	det
27	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 headlong	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stopped	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 stopped	advmod
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tumbled	conj
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 reached	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 reached	nsubj
33	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stopped	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bottom	det
35	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 reached	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	I		a hurry		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory
2	wait	gerund	I not said here			for a lantern	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	I		the darkness	against something	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
4	tumble	past				headlong property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not stop	past					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	reach	past	darkness	the bottom			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=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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