The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 48

I was forced to trust to chance, and to see what fate had in store, and it was already past midnight when I found myself on the roof of this palace.

Who acts: I, fate · What happens: force, trust, see, have, be, find · To what, where: I, chance, store, myself, roof · Speech: someone speaks here

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, fate), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 trust	mark
5	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chance	mark
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trust	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	conj
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 fate	det
13	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 store	case
16	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 midnight	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 midnight	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 midnight	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 midnight	cop
21	already	already	ADV	_	23 midnight	advmod
22	past	past	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forced	obl
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 found	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	advcl
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 found	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 roof	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roof	det
30	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 palace	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 palace	det
33	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 roof	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		I			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	trust	to-infinitive	I not said here	chance			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	what fate		store		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	fate			past midnight	tree rules
6	find	past	I	myself	the roof of this palace		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic

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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