The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 96

I made no effort to disturb them, and returned quickly to the house, when I took care to leave the door open, as I had previously found it.

Who acts: I · What happens: make, disturb, return, take, care, leave · To what, where: effort, wife, door

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effort	det
4	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 disturb	mark
6	disturb	disturb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 effort	acl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 disturb	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 returned	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 took	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
19	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 took	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 care	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
24	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leave	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 found	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 found	aux
29	previously	previously	ADV	_	30 found	advmod
30	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 took	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 found	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	I	no effort		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product
2	disturb	to-infinitive	I not said here	wife		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	return	past	I not said here		to the house result; quickly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
4	take	past	I			vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	care	infinitive	I not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here	the door	open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
7	find	past · perfect	I	door	previously property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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