The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 7

The words were not out of her mouth when, without feeling conscious that any change was passing over me, I suddenly knew that I had ceased to be a man.

Who acts: words, change, I · What happens: not be, feel, pass, know, cease, be · To what, where: mouth, man · 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 (words, change, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mouth	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mouth	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 mouth	advmod
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 feeling	mark
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feeling	punct
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 feeling	mark
12	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 mouth	acl
13	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feeling	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 passing	mark
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 change	det
16	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 passing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 passing	aux
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 feeling	advcl
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 passing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knew	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
23	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	24 knew	advmod
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feeling	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 ceased	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 ceased	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ceased	aux
28	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 knew	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	32 man	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 man	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ceased	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the words		face's mouth		tree rules
2	feel	gerund				conscious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	pass	past · progressive	any change			over me	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over i=Location
4	know	past	I			suddenly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	cease	past · perfect	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	is a	to-infinitive	I not said here	a man			tree rules

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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