The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 47

At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on turning it, the horse began slowly to sink towards the earth.

Who acts: direction, I, horse · What happens: grow, find, turn, begin, sink · To what, where: screw, last, direction

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 (direction, I, horse), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 found	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 growing	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 growing	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 growing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 growing	aux
7	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	conj
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 growing	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 screw	det
13	screw	screw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 began	cc
16	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 turning	mark
17	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 began	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turning	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turning	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 began	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sink	mark
25	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sink	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	direction			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	I	another screw	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent screw=Theme at last=Asset
3	turn	gerund	the horse not said here	direction			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	begin	past	the horse			slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sink	to-infinitive	the horse not said here			towards the earth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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