The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 84

I pretended not to pay attention to anything she did, in the hope that little by little she would get accustomed to me, and become more friendly; but I soon saw that my expectations were quite vain.

Who acts: I, woman, expectations, my · What happens: pretend, not pay, do, accustom, become, see · To what, where: attention, hope, woman, me

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman, expectations, my), 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	2 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pay	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pay	mark
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretended	xcomp
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 pay	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 anything	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hope	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hope	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hope	det
14	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pay	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 little	nsubj
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hope	amod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 little	case
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 little	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 accustomed	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 accustomed	aux
21	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 accustomed	aux:pass
22	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 little	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 accustomed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 become	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 become	cc
27	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pretended	conj
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 friendly	advmod
29	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 become	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 saw	nsubj
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 saw	advmod
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pretended	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 vain	mark
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 expectations	nmod:poss
37	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 vain	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 vain	cop
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 vain	advmod
40	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 saw	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	I					tree rules
2	not pay	to-infinitive	I not said here	attention		the hope	to anything	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	do	past	woman					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	accustom	would · passive		woman	me			tree rules
5	become	present	I not said here				friendly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	see	past	I				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	my expectations				vain property	tree rules
8	expect		my					nom expectation «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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