--- title: When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of e… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of escaping the dreadful fate which had over-taken my comrades; but life is sweet, and I determined to do all I could to save myself. Who acts: sun, I, hope, life. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/41/) [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/) / 41 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 41 When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of escaping the dreadful fate which had over-taken my comrades; but life is sweet, and I determined to do all I could to save myself. **Who acts:** sun, I, hope, life · **What happens:** rise, creep down, escape, over-taken, be, determine · **To what, where:** tree, dreadful fate, all, myself 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 (sun, I, hope, life), 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:pg128:15:41 # text = When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of escaping the dreadful fate which had over-taken my comrades; but life is sweet, and I determined to do all I could to save myself. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 of of SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 escaping escape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 over-taken over-taken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 comrades comrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 41 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the sun | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **creep down** | past | I | | | the tree with a hope | | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | | 3 | **escape** | gerund | a hope *not said here* | the dreadful fate | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **over-taken** | past · perfect · passive | | the dreadful fate | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | life | | | | | sweet *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **determine** | past | I | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 8 | **save** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | myself | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)