The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 50

I knew the risks I ran, but my need was so great that I paid no attention to them, and stole safely past your guards, to the curtain which concealed your doorway.

Who acts: I, need, curtain, my · What happens: know, run, be, pay, steal, conceal · To what, where: risks, attention, doorway

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, need, curtain, my), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 risks	det
4	risks	risk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 risks	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 great	cc
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 need	nmod:poss
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 great	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 great	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 paid	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 paid	nsubj
16	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 great	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 attention	det
18	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paid	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 paid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stole	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stole	cc
23	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
24	safely	safely	ADV	_	23 stole	advmod
25	past	past	ADP	_	27 guards	case
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 guards	nmod:poss
27	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stole	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 curtain	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 curtain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 curtain	det
31	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stole	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 concealed	nsubj
33	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 curtain	acl:relcl
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 doorway	nmod:poss
35	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 concealed	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	I	the risks			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer risk=Stimulus
2	run	past	I	the risks not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory
3	is	past	my need			great property	tree rules
4	pay	past	I	no attention	risks = risk		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
5	steal	past				past your guards; to the curtain; safely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	conceal	past	the curtain	your doorway			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doorway=Patient
7	need		my				nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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