The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 38

You may imagine that I was no unmoved spectator of these proceedings; to all the others it was a thing to which they had been accustomed from their youth up; but I was so horrified that I could not help telling the king how it struck me.

Who acts: You, I, stone · What happens: imagine, be, accustom up, not help, tell, strike · To what, where: unmoved spectator, thing, things, youth, king, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, stone), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 spectator	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 spectator	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spectator	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 spectator	det
8	unmoved	unmoved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spectator	amod
9	spectator	spectator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 proceedings	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 proceedings	det
12	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 spectator	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 others	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 others	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 others	det
17	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thing	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 imagine	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 accustomed	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 accustomed	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 accustomed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 accustomed	aux:pass
27	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 thing	acl:relcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 youth	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 youth	nmod:poss
30	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 accustomed	obl
31	up	up	ADP	_	27 accustomed	compound:prt
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 horrified	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 horrified	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 horrified	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 horrified	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 horrified	advmod
37	horrified	horrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 help	mark
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 help	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 help	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 help	advmod
42	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 horrified	advcl
43	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 help	xcomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 king	det
45	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 telling	obj
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	48 struck	advmod
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 struck	nsubj
48	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 telling	advcl
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 struck	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	past	I	no unmoved spectator			of this proceedings	tree rules
3	is a	past	stone	a thing			to all others	tree rules
4	accustom up	past · perfect · passive		things = thing		things's youth	to a thing	tree rules
5	is	past	I				horrified property	tree rules
6	not help	could	I					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	tell speech: assert not said to happen	gerund	I not said here		the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
8	strike	past	stone	me				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument

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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