The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 62

I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, wander, do, reach, begin, cut · To what, where: wood cutter, forest, delicious green glade, wood

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), 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	7 cutter	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cutter	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 cutter	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cutter	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutter	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct
7	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 year	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	12 year	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	9 more	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cutter	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wandered	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 wandered	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandered	obl:unmarked
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wandered	nsubj
18	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cutter	parataxis
19	further	further	ADV	_	18 wandered	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wandered	obl
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 done	advmod
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 wandered	advcl
28	before	before	ADV	_	27 done	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reached	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reached	cc
31	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wandered	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 glade	det
33	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 glade	amod
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 glade	amod
35	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reached	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 began	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 began	nsubj
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 glade	acl:relcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 cut	mark
41	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cut	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cutter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	I	a wood cutter		year		tree rules
2	wander	past	I		the forest	day	further property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
3	do	past · perfect	I			ever	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	reach	past	I not said here	a delicious green glade				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent glade=Theme
5	begin	past	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	cut	to-infinitive	I not said here	wood				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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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