The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 104

I therefore lost no time in telling my uncle everything I knew, and I observed that even before I had ended his sorrow appeared to be lightened a little.

Who acts: I, time, sorrow, prince · What happens: lose, tell, know, observe, end, appear · To what, where: everything, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. 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, sorrow, prince), 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	3 lost	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	7 telling	mark
7	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 time	acl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 everything	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 everything	compound
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 telling	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 everything	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 observed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 observed	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 observed	nsubj
16	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 ended	mark
18	even	even	ADV	_	22 ended	advmod
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 ended	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 ended	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ended	aux
22	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 observed	ccomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sorrow	nmod:poss
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	nsubj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ended	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	28 lightened	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 lightened	aux:pass
28	lightened	lighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 appeared	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lightened	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	I		time	therefore property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	no time not said here	everything			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
3	know	past	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	observe	past	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	end	past · perfect	I				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	appear	past	prince's sorrow				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
7	lighten	to-infinitive · passive	prince's sorrow not said here	a little			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
8	sorrow		prince				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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