The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 51

By the time I had finished night had fallen, and the ladies lighted up the castle with such a prodigious quantity of tapers that even day could hardly have been brighter.

Who acts: I, night, ladies, tapers · What happens: finish, fall, light up, be · To what, where: castle

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 (I, night, ladies, tapers), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 finished	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fallen	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fallen	aux
9	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 finished	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lighted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lighted	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ladies	det
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lighted	nsubj
14	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 finished	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 lighted	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lighted	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 quantity	case
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 quantity	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 quantity	det
21	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 quantity	amod
22	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lighted	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 tapers	case
24	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 quantity	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 brighter	nsubj
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 day	advmod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brighter	obl:unmarked
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 brighter	aux
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 brighter	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 brighter	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 brighter	cop
32	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 tapers	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	I		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fall	past · perfect	night				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	light up	participle	the ladies	the castle		with such prodigious quantity of tapers	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Product with quantity=Material
4	is	could · perfect	tapers		day	bright, hardly 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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