The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 57

But rescued though she was from one peril, it seemed as if she had only fallen into another.

Who acts: Princess, it · What happens: rescue, be, seem, fall · To what, where: one peril, another

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, it), 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	_	2 rescued	cc
2	rescued	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 peril	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 peril	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 peril	cop
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 peril	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 peril	nummod
8	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rescued	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seemed	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seemed	nsubj
11	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rescued	parataxis
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 fallen	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 fallen	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fallen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fallen	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 fallen	advmod
17	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 seemed	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	19 another	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fallen	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rescued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	rescue	past				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Princess	one peril		tree rules
3	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	fall a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Princess		into another result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into another=Result

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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