The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 9

Indeed her blows were so heavy, that I only wonder they did not kill me at once.

Who acts: blows, I, Amina · What happens: be, wonder, not kill, blow · To what, where: me · 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 (blows, I, Amina), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 blows	nmod:poss
3	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wonder	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 wonder	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wonder	nsubj
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 wonder	advmod
11	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 kill	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 kill	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 kill	advmod
15	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wonder	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 kill	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 kill	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Amina's blows		heavy, indeed property	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not kill	past · do-support	blows = blow	me		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	blow		Amina			nom blow «act intransitive»: 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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