The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 57

He sought her through the house, and when at last he found her, she nearly fainted with terror at the sight of him.

Who acts: crone, lady · What happens: seek, find, faint, sight · To what, where: lady, house, last, crone

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 (crone, lady), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	nsubj
2	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sought	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fainted	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fainted	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 found	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fainted	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fainted	nsubj
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 fainted	advmod
18	fainted	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sought	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 terror	case
20	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fainted	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 sight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sight	det
23	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fainted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sight	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	past	crone	lady	the house		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through house=Location
2	find	past	crone	lady	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at last=Asset
3	faint	past	lady			with terror; at the sight of crone; nearly property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus
4	sight			crone			nom sight «cognition 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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