The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 6

But, fascinated though he was, he was well aware of the danger of his position, as one cry of surprise would awake the guards, and cause his certain death.

Who acts: prince, one cry, surprise · What happens: fascinate, be, awake, cause, cry, die · To what, where: guards, certain death

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 (prince, one cry, surprise), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 fascinated	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fascinated	punct
3	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 aware	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 aware	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 aware	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 aware	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 aware	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 aware	cop
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 aware	advmod
11	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fascinated	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 danger	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 danger	det
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 aware	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 position	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 position	nmod:poss
17	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 danger	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 awake	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 awake	mark
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cry	nummod
21	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 awake	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 surprise	case
23	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cry	nmod
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 awake	aux
25	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fascinated	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 guards	det
27	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 awake	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cause	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cause	cc
30	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 awake	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 death	nmod:poss
32	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 death	amod
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fascinated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fascinate	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	prince		of the danger of prince's position; aware, well property	tree rules
3	awake	would	one cry of surprise	the guards		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location guard=Theme
4	cause	infinitive	one cry of surprise not said here	prince's certain death		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
5	cry		surprise			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	die		prince			nom death «event intransitive»: 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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