The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 86

Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for granted that, in order to do this, it was only needful to turn the screw the reverse way; but, to his surprise and horror, he found that, turn as he might, he did not make the smallest impression.

Who acts: Firouz, mountain, it · What happens: begin, think, be, come down, take, grant · To what, where: time, that, this, screw, smallest impression · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mountain, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	cop
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 time	acl
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 granted	mark
16	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 took	advcl
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 took	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
19	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 do	mark
20	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 in	fixed
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 took	parataxis
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 needful	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 needful	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 needful	cop
27	only	only	ADV	_	28 needful	advmod
28	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 do	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 turn	mark
30	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 needful	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 screw	det
32	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 way	det
34	reverse	reverse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	obl:unmarked
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 found	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 found	cc
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 but	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 surprise	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 surprise	nmod:poss
41	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 found	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 horror	cc
43	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 surprise	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 surprise	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 found	nsubj
46	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 turn	mark
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 turn	punct
49	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 found	xcomp
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 might	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 might	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 turn	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 make	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 make	nsubj
55	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 make	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 make	advmod
57	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 found	ccomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 impression	det
59	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 impression	amod
60	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 make	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Firouz		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Firouz not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	mountain	time			tree rules
4	come down	to-infinitive	Firouz not said here			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	Firouz not said here	that			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
6	grant	participle	Firouz not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
7	do	to-infinitive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
8	is	past	it			needful property	tree rules
9	turn	to-infinitive		the screw		the reverse way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme
10	find	past	Firouz			to Firouz's surprise and horror	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	turn	infinitive	Firouz not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
12	not make	past · do-support	Firouz	the smallest impression			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Product
13	surprise		Firouz				nom surprise «feeling 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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