The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 43

I found myself in a country that was quite new to me, and dared not return to the main road lest I should again fall into the hands of the robbers.

Who acts: I, country · What happens: find, be, return, fall · To what, where: myself, country, me, hands

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, country), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 found	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 new	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 new	cop
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 new	advmod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 country	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 new	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 return	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 return	cc
15	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 return	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 dared	advmod
17	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 road	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 road	det
20	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 road	amod
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	26 fall	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fall	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 fall	aux
25	again	again	ADV	_	26 fall	advmod
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 return	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hands	det
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fall	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 robbers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 robbers	det
32	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hands	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	I	myself		a country			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic
2	is	past	a country		me			new property	tree rules
3	return	past						to the main road result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result
4	fall	should	I				again	into the hands of the robbers result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=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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