🌲 Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almet, Concluded., sentence 1

While I was gazing in a transport of delight and wonder on this enchanting spot, I perceived a man stealing along the walk with a thoughtful and deliberate pace; his eyes were fixed upon the earth, and his arms crossed on his bosom; he sometimes started, as if a sudden pang had seized him; his countenance expressed solicitude and terror; he looked round with a sigh, and having gazed a moment on the desart that lay before him, he seemed as if he wished to stop, but was impelled forwards by some invisible power; his features however soon settled again in a calm melancholy; his eye was again fixed on the ground; and he went on as before, with apparent reluctance, but without emotion.

Who acts: I, man, arms, countenance, desart, invisible power · What happens: gaze, wonder, enchant, perceive, steal, fix · To what, where: man, walk, eyes, bosom, sudden pang, solicitude

This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almet, Concluded.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, arms, countenance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

Pragmatics

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