The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 83

When he saw such a terrible-looking monster, the fisherman would like to have run away, but he trembled so with fright that he could not move a step.

Who acts: genius, fisherman · What happens: see, look, like, run away, tremble, not move · To what, where: looking monster, step

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genius, fisherman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 monster	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 monster	det
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looking	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 monster	amod
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fisherman	det
12	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 like	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 like	aux
14	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 run	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 like	xcomp
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 run	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 trembled	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 trembled	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trembled	nsubj
22	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	22 trembled	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 fright	case
25	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 trembled	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 move	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 move	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 move	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 move	advmod
30	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 trembled	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 step	det
32	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 move	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	genius	such looking monster		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	like	would	the fisherman			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	run away not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect	the fisherman not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tremble	past	genius		with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not move	could	genius	a step		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=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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