The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 13

Without waiting for an answer--which, indeed, I could hardly have given him, so great was my fright--he seized hold of me, and darted up into the air with the quickness of lightning, and then, with equal swiftness, dropped down towards the earth.

Who acts: I, hatchet · What happens: wait, give, be, seize, dart up, drop down · To what, where: hatchet, hold, air, earth, me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hatchet), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 given	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 answer	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waiting	obl
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 indeed	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 indeed	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 which	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 answer	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 given	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 given	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 given	advmod
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 given	aux
15	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 fright	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 given	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 great	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 great	advmod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 given	conj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fright	cop
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fright	nmod:poss
22	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 fright	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seized	nsubj
25	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hold	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 darted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 darted	cc
31	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seized	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 darted	compound:prt
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 darted	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 quickness	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 quickness	det
38	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 darted	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 lightning	case
40	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 quickness	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 swiftness	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 swiftness	cc
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 swiftness	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 swiftness	punct
45	with	with	ADP	_	47 swiftness	case
46	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 swiftness	amod
47	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seized	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 dropped	punct
49	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 seized	conj
50	down	down	ADP	_	49 dropped	compound:prt
51	towards	towards	ADP	_	53 earth	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 earth	det
53	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 dropped	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	I not said here			for a answer	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	could · perfect	I	hatchet		hardly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	past				give my fright	tree rules
4	seize	past	hatchet	hold of me		with equal swiftness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	dart up	past	hatchet not said here		the air	with the quickness of lightning	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
6	drop down	past	hatchet not said here		the earth		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards earth=Trajectory
7	hold			me			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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