The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 87

He then remembered that he had never waited to ask how he was to get back to earth again, and understood the danger in which he stood.

Who acts: Firouz · What happens: remember, not wait, ask, be, understand, stand · To what, where: danger · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remembered	advmod
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 waited	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waited	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 waited	advmod
8	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 remembered	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 waited	advcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 get	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 ask	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 get	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 earth	case
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 back	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	15 get	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 understood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 understood	cc
22	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 danger	det
24	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 understood	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 danger	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Firouz			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not wait	past · perfect	Firouz					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Firouz not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is not said to happen	past	Firouz			again	get property	tree rules
5	understand	past	Firouz not said here	the danger				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
6	stand	past	Firouz		the danger			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location

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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