The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 64
Then, finding he was quite dead, a cold fear took possession of him. "
Who acts: cold fear, thief · What happens: find, be, take, possess · To what, where: possession, thief · 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 (cold fear, thief), 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 finding | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 took | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 dead | advmod |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finding | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finding | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fear | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | amod |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 possession | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | a cold fear not said here | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | thief | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a cold fear | possession of thief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | thief | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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