--- title: Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of the faggots, but happily for me they held together, and when it grew light my enemy retired, baffled and hungry, to his den. Who acts: moment, entrance, faggots. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Ope --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/44/) [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/) / 44 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 44 Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of the faggots, but happily for me they held together, and when it grew light my enemy retired, baffled and hungry, to his den. **Who acts:** moment, entrance, faggots · **What happens:** fear, succeed, push, hold together, grow, retire · **To what, where:** some, light enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (moment, entrance, faggots), 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:pg128:15:44 # text = Every moment I feared that it would succeed in pushing aside some of the faggots, but happily for me they held together, and when it grew light my enemy retired, baffled and hungry, to his den. 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 in in SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 aside aside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 faggots faggot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 happily happily ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 light light ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 retired retire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 baffled baffle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fear** | past | every moment | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **succeed** | would | entrance | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **push** | gerund | entrance *not said here* | some | | | | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | | 4 | **hold together** | past | faggots *= faggot* | | | | | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | entrance | my light enemy | | | | to snake's den *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient enemy=Extent to den=Result | | 6 | **retire** | participle | | my light enemy *not said here* | | | | | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **baffle** | participle | | my light enemy *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/45/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)