The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 13

I was safe, but my tail hurt me horribly, and I yelped and howled so loud all along the streets, that the other dogs came and attacked me, which made matters no better.

Who acts: I, tail, other dogs · What happens: be, hurt, yelp, howl, come, attack · To what, where: me, streets

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 (I, tail, other dogs), 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	3 safe	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hurt	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	nsubj
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 hurt	obj
10	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	8 hurt	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yelped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 yelped	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 yelped	nsubj
14	yelped	yelp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 howled	cc
16	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 yelped	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 loud	advmod
18	loud	loud	ADV	_	16 howled	advmod
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 streets	advmod
20	along	along	ADP	_	22 streets	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 streets	det
22	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 howled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dogs	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dogs	amod
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 yelped	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 attacked	cc
30	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 attacked	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
35	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 better	csubj
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 better	advmod
37	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 made	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I			safe property	tree rules
2	hurt	past	my tail	me		horribly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient
3	yelp	past	I				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	howl	past	I not said here		the streets	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along street=Location
5	come	past	the other dogs				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	attack	past	the other dogs not said here	me			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
7	make	past					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	matter	present					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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