The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 27

As soon as he was let go, he sank on the ground powerless to move, though he still had possession of his senses.

Who acts: door · What happens: let, go, sink, move, have, possess · To what, where: door, ground, possession, senses

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 sank	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 let	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux:pass
6	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sank	advcl
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sank	nsubj
10	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sank	obl
14	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ground	amod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 move	mark
16	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 powerless	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 had	advmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sank	conj
22	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 senses	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 senses	nmod:poss
25	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 possession	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive		door				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	door not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sink	past	door		the ground		soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	move	to-infinitive	door not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	door	possession of door's senses		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Patient
6	possess			door's senses				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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