The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 3

When night came I slept sweetly in a cosy nook, though the remembrance that I was alone in a strange land made me sometimes start up and look around me in alarm, and then I wished heartily that I had stayed at home at ease.

Who acts: night, I, remembrance · What happens: come, sleep, be, make, start up, look · To what, where: cosy nook, me, strange land, alarm, home

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, I, remembrance), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	5 slept	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 nook	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nook	det
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nook	amod
10	nook	nook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remembrance	punct
12	though	though	ADP	_	14 remembrance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 remembrance	det
14	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 made	nsubj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 alone	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 alone	cop
18	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 land	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 land	det
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 land	amod
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remembrance	acl:relcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 start	advmod
26	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 start	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 look	cc
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 start	conj
30	around	around	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 alarm	case
33	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 look	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wished	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wished	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 wished	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 wished	nsubj
38	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
39	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	38 wished	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 stayed	mark
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 stayed	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stayed	aux
43	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 wished	advcl
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 home	case
45	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stayed	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 ease	case
47	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stayed	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	night				though the remembrance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	I		a cosy nook		sweetly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in nook=Location
3	is	past	I				alone property	tree rules
4	make	past	the remembrance	me	a strange land			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
5	start up	present	the remembrance not said here				sometimes property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	look	infinitive	the remembrance not said here		alarm		around me	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around i=Theme
7	wish	past	I			then	heartily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	stay	past · perfect	I		home		at ease	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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