The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 45

But no sooner did she see her ring than, barely glancing at the writing, she rose hastily and with one bound reached the doorway and pushed back the hangings.

Who acts: princess, one bound · What happens: see, glance, rise, reach, push back · To what, where: ring, doorway, hangings

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, one bound), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 see	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ring	nmod:poss
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 ring	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glancing	punct
11	barely	barely	ADV	_	12 glancing	advmod
12	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 see	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 writing	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 writing	det
15	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glancing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rose	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rose	nsubj
18	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 glancing	conj
19	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	18 rose	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reached	cc
21	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 reached	mark
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 bound	nummod
23	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rose	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 doorway	det
26	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pushed	cc
28	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reached	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 pushed	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hangings	det
31	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pushed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	princess	princess's ring	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
2	glance	gerund	princess not said here		at the writing; barely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at writing=Theme
3	rise	past	princess		hastily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	past	one bound	the doorway		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent doorway=Theme
5	push back	past	one bound not said here	the hangings		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hanging=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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