The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 49

I crept down the little staircase, and made directly for a light which I perceived through an open door--I peeped cautiously in, and saw, as you will guess, the eunuchs lying asleep on the floor.

Who acts: I, you, eunuchs · What happens: creep, make, perceive, peep, see, guess · To what, where: little staircase, light, open door, eunuchs, floor

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, you, eunuchs), 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	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	6 staircase	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 staircase	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 staircase	amod
6	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
10	directly	directly	ADV	_	9 made	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 light	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 light	det
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 perceived	obj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 perceived	nsubj
16	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 light	acl:relcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	20 door	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 door	det
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 door	amod
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perceived	obl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 peeped	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 peeped	nsubj
23	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
24	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	_	23 peeped	advmod
25	in	in	ADV	_	23 peeped	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 saw	cc
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 guess	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 guess	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 guess	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 guess	aux
33	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 saw	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 eunuchs	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 eunuchs	det
36	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 guess	obj
37	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 eunuchs	acl
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 lying	xcomp
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 floor	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 floor	det
41	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lying	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past	I		the little staircase		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down staircase=Trajectory
2	make	past	I not said here			for a light; directly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for light=Asset
3	perceive	past	I	a light	a open door		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4	peep	past	I			cautiously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	guess	future	you	the eunuchs			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eunuch=Theme
7	lie	gerund	the eunuchs not said here		the floor	asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=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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