The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

I was so well amused that I did not notice how the time was passing, but at length one of the ladies approached and informed me it was midnight, and that, as I must be tired, she would conduct me to the room that had been prepared for me.

Who acts: I, time, length, rest · What happens: be, not notice, pass, approach, inform, conduct · To what, where: length, me, midnight, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, time, length, rest), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 amused	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amused	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 amused	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 amused	advmod
5	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 notice	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 notice	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 notice	advmod
10	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 amused	advcl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 passing	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passing	aux
15	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 notice	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 approached	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 approached	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 approached	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 length	flat
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ladies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ladies	det
23	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 amused	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 informed	cc
26	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 approached	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 informed	iobj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 midnight	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 midnight	cop
30	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 informed	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 that	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 that	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 amused	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tired	punct
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 tired	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tired	nsubj
37	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 tired	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 tired	cop
39	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amused	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 conduct	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 conduct	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 conduct	aux
43	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tired	advcl
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 conduct	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 room	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 room	det
47	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 conduct	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 prepared	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 prepared	aux
50	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 prepared	aux:pass
51	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 room	acl:relcl
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 me	case
53	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 prepared	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				amuse, well property	tree rules
2	not notice	past · do-support	I					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	pass	past · progressive	the time					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	approach	past				length		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	inform speech: other	past			me			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is a	past	length	midnight				tree rules
7	is	must	I				tired property	tree rules
8	conduct	would	rest	me		the room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to room=Destination
9	prepare	past · perfect · passive		the room			for me	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for i=Beneficiary

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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