The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 63

I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ring fastened to a trapdoor of the same metal.

Who acts: I · What happens: hack, behold, fasten · To what, where: iron ring

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	3 hacking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hacking	aux
3	hacking	hack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 root	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 root	det
6	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hacking	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 root	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beheld	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 beheld	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 beheld	nsubj
13	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hacking	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ring	det
15	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ring	amod
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beheld	obj
17	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ring	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 trapdoor	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 trapdoor	det
20	trapdoor	trapdoor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fastened	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 metal	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 metal	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 metal	amod
24	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trapdoor	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hacking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hack	past · progressive	I		at the root of a tree	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient
2	behold	past	I	a iron ring		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
3	fasten	participle		a iron ring not said here	to a trapdoor of the same metal	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to trapdoor=Co-Patient

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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