The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 39

A light! a light!" he cried again, and when it was brought and he saw what he had done he was almost beside himself with terror.

Who acts: light, doctor · What happens: cry, bring, see, do, be · To what, where: light · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (light, doctor), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	conj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 cried	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brought	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 brought	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux:pass
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cried	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	conj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 done	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 saw	ccomp
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 himself	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 himself	cop
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 himself	advmod
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 done	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 terror	case
30	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 done	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	a light and a light		again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring in a quote	past · passive		light			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
3	see in a quote	past	doctor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	past · perfect	doctor			with terror	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	is in a quote	past	doctor			beside doctor; almost property	tree rules

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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