The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 11

At last she got tired of pursuing me, or else a new trick entered into her head, which would give me speedy and painful death; she opened the gate leading into the street, intending to crush me as I passed through.

Who acts: frantic, new trick, head, gate, I · What happens: get, pursue, enter, give, open, lead · To what, where: last, me, head, speedy death, gate, street

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frantic, new trick, head, gate), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 pursuing	mark
7	pursuing	pursue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pursuing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 entered	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 entered	cc
11	else	else	ADV	_	15 entered	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trick	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trick	amod
14	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	nsubj
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 entered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 give	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 head	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 death	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 painful	cc
26	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 speedy	conj
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 opened	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 opened	nsubj
30	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gate	det
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 opened	obj
33	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 gate	acl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 street	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 street	det
36	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 leading	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 intending	punct
38	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 opened	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 crush	mark
40	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 intending	xcomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 crush	obj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 passed	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 passed	nsubj
44	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 crush	advcl
45	through	through	ADV	_	44 passed	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	frantic			last	tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pursue	gerund	frantic not said here	me				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	enter	past	a new trick			frantic's head	else property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
4	give	would	frantic's head	speedy death	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient death=Theme
5	open	past	frantic	the gate				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme
6	lead	gerund	the gate not said here			the street		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into street=Destination
7	intend	gerund	frantic not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	frantic not said here	me				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
9	pass through	past	I				through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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