The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 32

I sat with my eyes fixed on him, and he never left the house without having me at his heels; and if it ever happened that when he was preparing to go out I was asleep, and did not notice, he would call "Rufus, Rufus," for that was the name he gave me.

Who acts: I, dog, it, that · What happens: sit, fix, not leave, have, happen, prepare · To what, where: eyes, house, me, heels, name · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dog, it, that), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eyes	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fixed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 left	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 left	advmod
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obj
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 having	mark
17	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 left	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 having	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 heels	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heels	nmod:poss
21	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 having	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 happened	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 happened	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 happened	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 happened	nsubj
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 happened	advmod
27	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 preparing	mark
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 preparing	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 preparing	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 preparing	aux
32	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 happened	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 preparing	xcomp
35	out	out	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 asleep	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 asleep	cop
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 go	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 notice	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 notice	cc
41	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 notice	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 notice	advmod
43	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 happened	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 call	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 call	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 call	aux
47	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 notice	conj
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Rufus	punct
49	Rufus	Rufus	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 call	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Rufus	punct
51	Rufus	Rufus	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Rufus	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Rufus	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 Rufus	punct
54	for	for	ADP	_	58 name	case
55	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	58 name	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 name	cop
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 name	det
58	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 call	obl
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 gave	nsubj
60	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 name	acl:relcl
61	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 gave	iobj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I					with my eyes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fix	participle		my eyes not said here				on dog	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not leave	past	dog	the house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	have	gerund	dog not said here	me		dog's heels			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	it				ever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	prepare	past · progressive	dog						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
7	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	dog not said here					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	I					asleep property	tree rules
9	not notice	past · do-support							vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
10	call	would	dog						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	is	past	that					for the name	tree rules
12	give	past	dog	the name not said here	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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