The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 85

Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mountains were not distinguishable from the plains.

Who acts: Firouz, mountains · What happens: go, continue, ascend, not be · To what, where: air, higher, plains

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Firouz, mountains), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Firouz	nmod:desc
4	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
5	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Firouz	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	7 gone	advmod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 continued	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 continued	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 space	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 space	det
17	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 continued	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hour	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 space	nmod
21	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gone	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ascend	mark
23	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 continued	xcomp
24	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 ascend	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 higher	cc
26	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 higher	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 distinguishable	punct
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 distinguishable	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mountains	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 mountains	advmod
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 distinguishable	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 distinguishable	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 distinguishable	advmod
34	distinguishable	distinguishable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 continued	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 plains	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 plains	det
37	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 distinguishable	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Firouz Prince		the air	meanwhile property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location
2	continue	participle	Firouz Prince not said here			for the space of a hour	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ascend	to-infinitive	Firouz Prince not said here	higher			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme high=Trajectory
4	not is	past	the mountains		the plains	distinguishable property	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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