--- title: When night came I fell asleep, but only to be awakened once more by… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When night came I fell asleep, but only to be awakened once more by the terrible snake, which after hissing horribly round the tree at last reared itself up against it, and finding my sleeping comrade who was perched just below me, it swallowed him also, and crawled away leaving me half dead with te --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/40/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/) / 40 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 40 When night came I fell asleep, but only to be awakened once more by the terrible snake, which after hissing horribly round the tree at last reared itself up against it, and finding my sleeping comrade who was perched just below me, it swallowed him also, and crawled away leaving me half dead with terror. **Who acts:** night, I, terrible snake, last, tree · **What happens:** come, fall, awaken, hiss, rear up, find · **To what, where:** tree, sleeping comrade, snake, me This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, I, terrible snake, last), 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:pg128:15:40 # text = When night came I fell asleep, but only to be awakened once more by the terrible snake, which after hissing horribly round the tree at last reared itself up against it, and finding my sleeping comrade who was perched just below me, it swallowed him also, and crawled away leaving me half dead with terror. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 awakened awaken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 13 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 14 advmod _ _ 14 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 12 advmod _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 hissing hiss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 23 horribly horribly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 round round ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 at at SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nsubj _ _ 29 reared rear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 30 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 against against ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 amod _ _ 39 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 below below ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 also also ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 54 away away ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 53 advcl _ _ 56 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 obj _ _ 57 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 58 advmod _ _ 58 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 xcomp _ _ 59 with with ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 60 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fall** | past | I | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **awaken** | to-infinitive · passive | the terrible snake | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hiss** | gerund | the terrible snake | | | | | round the tree; horribly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **rear up** | past | last | tree | | | | against tree | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | | 6 | **find** | gerund | night *not said here* | my sleeping comrade | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Topic | | 7 | **sleep** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **perch** | past · passive | | my sleeping comrade | | | | below me | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme below i=Destination | | 9 | **swallow** | past | tree | snake | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 10 | **crawl away** | past | tree *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **leave** | gerund | tree *not said here* | me | | | | dead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/41/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)