The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 45

In an instant I was soaring upwards, much quicker than an arrow could fly, and I felt as if I must be getting so near the sky that I should soon hit my head against it!

Who acts: I, arrow · What happens: soar, fly, feel, get, hit · To what, where: sky

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, arrow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaring	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 soaring	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soaring	aux
6	soaring	soar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	6 soaring	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quicker	punct
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 quicker	advmod
10	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 soaring	parataxis
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 fly	mark
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 arrow	det
13	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fly	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fly	aux
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 quicker	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 felt	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 soaring	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 getting	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 getting	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 getting	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 getting	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 getting	aux
25	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 felt	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	29 sky	advmod
27	near	near	ADP	_	29 sky	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sky	det
29	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 getting	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 hit	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 hit	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hit	aux
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 hit	advmod
34	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sky	acl:relcl
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hit	obj
37	against	against	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hit	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 soaring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soar	past · progressive	I		in a instant; upwards property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in instant=Attribute
2	fly	could	a arrow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	I			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	get	must · progressive	I	the sky		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus
5	hit	should	I	the sky	against arrow; soon property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent that=Patient head=Result

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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