The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 92

Hardly had my foot touched the talisman when the air became as dark as night, a fearful noise was heard, and the palace shook to its very foundations.

Who acts: foot, air, palace · What happens: have, touch, become, hear, shake · To what, where: talisman, fearful noise, foundations

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 (foot, air, palace), 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	Hardly	hardly	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 talisman	det
7	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 touched	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 became	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	advcl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 dark	advmod
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dark	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 noise	det
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 noise	amod
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux:pass
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 became	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shook	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 shook	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 palace	det
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shook	nsubj
26	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 foundations	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 foundations	nmod:poss
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 foundations	advmod
30	foundations	foundation	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 shook	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	touch	past	my foot	the talisman			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme talisman=Co-Theme
3	become	past	the air			dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	hear	past · passive		a fearful noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
5	shake	past	the palace		talisman's foundations		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to foundation=Trajectory

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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