The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 37

After some time he grew bewildered, his knees began to tremble, and finding himself in the act of falling, he forgot altogether the advice of the dervish.

Who acts: knees, act, Prince · What happens: bewilder, begin, tremble, find, fall, forget · To what, where: Prince, act, advice

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knees, act, Prince), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bewildered	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bewildered	aux:pass
6	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 time	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knees	nmod:poss
9	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tremble	mark
12	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 finding	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 finding	cc
15	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 began	advcl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 finding	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 act	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 act	det
19	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 finding	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 falling	mark
21	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 act	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forgot	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forgot	nsubj
24	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
25	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	24 forgot	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 advice	det
27	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forgot	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dervish	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dervish	det
30	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 advice	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bewilder	past · passive		Prince				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	begin	past	Prince's knees			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tremble	to-infinitive	Prince's knees not said here					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	gerund	Prince's knees not said here	Prince	the act			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
5	fall	gerund	the act not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	forget	past	Prince	the advice of the dervish			altogether property	tree rules

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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