The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 64

I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection.

Who acts: I, pulling, my · What happens: clear away, pull up, find, make up, go down, carry · To what, where: earth, door, staircase, hatchet · Speech: someone speaks here

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, pulling, my), 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 cleared	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 cleared	advmod
3	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADP	_	3 cleared	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 earth	det
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleared	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 found	csubj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 pulling	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulling	punct
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cleared	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 staircase	det
16	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
20	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	21 made	advmod
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 staircase	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 made	compound:prt
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mind	nmod:poss
24	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	advcl
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 carrying	punct
29	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 found	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hatchet	nmod:poss
31	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrying	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 carrying	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 way	case
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrying	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 protection	case
37	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 way	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cleared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clear away	past	I	the earth	soon property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent earth=Source
2	pull up	gerund		the door		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
3	find	past	pulling	a staircase		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Topic
4	make up	past	I	a staircase	hastily property	tree rules
5	go down	to-infinitive	I not said here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	carry	gerund	pulling not said here	my hatchet	with me; by way of protection	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
7	mind		my			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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