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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 94

I am doing no harm," he said, "and whoever the owner may be, he will not touch me when he sees I am unarmed," and in dread of making a false step, he went cautiously down the staircase.

Who acts: I, Prince, dread · What happens: do, say, be, not touch, see, make · To what, where: harm, whoever, me, false step, staircase · 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 (I, Prince, dread), 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

nsubjauxccompdetobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctccccompdetnsubjauxcoppunctnsubjauxadvmodconjobjmarknsubjadvclnsubjcopccomppunctpunctcccaseconjmarkacldetamodobjpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootIPRONamAUXdoingVERBnoDETharmNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJwhoeverPRONtheDETownerNOUNmayAUXbeAUX,PUNCThePRONwillAUXnotPARTtouchVERBmePRONwhenSCONJhePRONseesVERBIPRONamAUXunarmedADJ,PUNCT"PUNCTandCCONJinADPdreadNOUNofSCONJmakingVERBaDETfalseADJstepNOUN,PUNCThePRONwentVERBcautiouslyADVdownADPtheDETstaircaseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 doingnsubj
2ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 doingaux
3doingdoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 saidccomp
4nonoDETPronType=Neg5 harmdet
5harmharmNOUNNumber=Sing3 doingobj
6,,PUNCT_3 doingpunct
7""PUNCT_3 doingpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 saidnsubj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10,,PUNCT_9 saidpunct
11""PUNCT_9 saidpunct
12andandCCONJ_13 whoevercc
13whoeverwhoeverPRONPronType=Rel9 saidccomp
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 ownerdet
15ownerownerNOUNNumber=Sing17 bensubj
16maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin17 beaux
17bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf13 whoevercop
18,,PUNCT_22 touchpunct
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 touchnsubj
20willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin22 touchaux
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg22 touchadvmod
22touchtouchVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidconj
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 touchobj
24whenwhenSCONJ_26 seesmark
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 seesnsubj
26seesseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 touchadvcl
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 unarmednsubj
28ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 unarmedcop
29unarmedunarmedADJDegree=Pos26 seesccomp
30,,PUNCT_29 unarmedpunct
31""PUNCT_29 unarmedpunct
32andandCCONJ_34 dreadcc
33ininADP_34 dreadcase
34dreaddreadNOUNNumber=Sing29 unarmedconj
35ofofSCONJ_36 makingmark
36makingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger34 dreadacl
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 stepdet
38falsefalseADJDegree=Pos39 stepamod
39stepstepNOUNNumber=Sing36 makingobj
40,,PUNCT_42 wentpunct
41hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs42 wentnsubj
42wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 saidconj
43cautiouslycautiouslyADV_42 wentadvmod
44downdownADP_46 staircasecase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 staircasedet
46staircasestaircaseNOUNNumber=Sing42 wentobl
47..PUNCT_9 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dopresent · progressiveIno harmvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
2say speech: assert in a quotepastPrincevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3is ainfinitivewhoevertree rules
4not touchfuturePrincemevn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
5seepresentPrincevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6ispresentIunarmed propertytree rules
7make in a quotegerunddread not said herea false stepvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product
8go in a quotepastPrincethe staircasecautiously propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down staircase=Initial_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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