The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 103

Besides, I had an instinct that gentle means had the best chance of success; so, a little soothed, I turned towards home, which I reached about the hour of dinner.

Who acts: I, instinct, home, success · What happens: have, mean, soothe, turn, reach, chance · To what, where: instinct, best chance, little, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, instinct, home, success), 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instinct	det
6	instinct	instinct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 means	nsubj
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 instinct	acl:relcl
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 means	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chance	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 chance	amod
13	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 success	case
15	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chance	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 soothed	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 soothed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 soothed	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 soothed	obl:unmarked
21	soothed	soothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
25	towards	towards	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reached	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 reached	nsubj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 reached	nsubj
30	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 home	acl:relcl
31	about	about	ADV	_	33 hour	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hour	det
33	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reached	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 dinner	case
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hour	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	I	a instinct			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Patient
2	mean	present	a instinct				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past		the best chance of success			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
4	soothe	participle	I not said here	a little			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	turn	past	I		home		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards home=Trajectory
6	reach	past	home			hour	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	chance		success				nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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