The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 54

Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the spell laid on me, and noticing the way in which this woman had looked at me, the idea entered my head that perhaps she might have guessed what had happened, and in this I was not deceived.

Who acts: thoughts, some, idea, woman, my · What happens: run, mean, shake off, lay, notice, look · To what, where: spell, way, woman, head, I, this

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 (thoughts, some, idea, woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 running	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 thoughts	nmod:poss
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 running	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 running	advmod
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 entered	advcl
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 running	ccomp
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 shaking	mark
11	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 shaking	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spell	det
14	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaking	obj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spell	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 noticing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 noticing	cc
20	noticing	notice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 running	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 noticing	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 looked	obl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	aux
28	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 way	acl:relcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 looked	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 entered	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 idea	det
33	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 entered	nsubj
34	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 entered	obj
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 guessed	obj
38	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	42 guessed	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 guessed	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 guessed	aux
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 guessed	aux
42	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 head	acl:relcl
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 happened	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 happened	aux
45	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 guessed	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 deceived	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 deceived	cc
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 this	case
49	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 deceived	obl
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 deceived	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 deceived	aux:pass
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 deceived	advmod
53	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 entered	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past · progressive	my thoughts			now	always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mean	present	some					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	shake off	gerund	some not said here	the spell				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
4	lay	participle		the spell not said here			on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination
5	notice	gerund	my thoughts not said here	the way				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
6	look	past · perfect · passive		this woman	the way		at me	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
7	enter	past	the idea	my head				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination
8	guess	might · perfect	woman	my head			perhaps property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
9	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not deceive	past · passive		I	this			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
11	think		my					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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