--- title: The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut the threads that bound me, and the sight of me in my proper clothes so alarmed the roc that he spread his wings and flew away. Who acts: moment, I, threads, sight. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/) / 42 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 42 The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut the threads that bound me, and the sight of me in my proper clothes so alarmed the roc that he spread his wings and flew away. **Who acts:** moment, I, threads, sight, roc · **What happens:** touch, take out, cut, bound, alarm, spread · **To what, where:** ground, knife, threads, me, roc, wings This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, I, threads, sight), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:12:42 # text = The moment my feet touched the ground I took out my knife and cut the threads that bound me, and the sight of me in my proper clothes so alarmed the roc that he spread his wings and flew away. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 cut cut VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 bound bound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 23 nmod _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 alarmed alarm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 roc roc NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | the moment | the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 2 | **take out** | past | I | my knife | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the threads | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=Product | | 4 | **bound** | present | the threads | me | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location i=Theme | | 5 | **alarm** | past | the sight of me in my proper clothes | the roc | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus roc=Experiencer | | 6 | **spread** | past | roc | roc's wings | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 7 | **fly away** | past | roc *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sight** | | | me | | my proper clothes | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient in=place | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/43/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/)