The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 3

At length one day it struck me that my prison had grown much larger, and that the mainland seemed to be nearer.

Who acts: length, mainland · What happens: strike, grow, seem, be · To what, where: me, length, prison

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 (length, mainland), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 struck	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 length	nmod:unmarked
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	nsubj
6	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 struck	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 grown	mark
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prison	nmod:poss
10	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grown	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 struck	advcl
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 larger	advmod
14	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grown	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 seemed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mainland	det
19	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 struck	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	23 nearer	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 nearer	cop
23	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 seemed	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	length	me	length one day		tree rules
2	grow	past · perfect · passive		my prison		large property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	seem	past	the mainland				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	the mainland not said here			near property	tree rules

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.

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