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title: By the time I had finished night had fallen, and the ladies lighted… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: By the time I had finished night had fallen, and the ladies lighted up the castle with such a prodigious quantity of tapers that even day could hardly have been brighter. Who acts: I, night, ladies, tapers. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 51

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By the time I had finished night had fallen, and the ladies lighted up the castle with such a prodigious quantity of tapers that even day could hardly have been brighter.

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**Who acts:** I, night, ladies, tapers · **What happens:** finish, fall, light up, be · **To what, where:** castle

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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, night, ladies, tapers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:12:51
# text = By the time I had finished night had fallen, and the ladies lighted up the castle with such a prodigious quantity of tapers that even day could hardly have been brighter.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
26	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
32	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **light up** | participle | the ladies | the castle |  |  |  | with such prodigious quantity of tapers | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Product with quantity=Material |
| 4 | **is** | could · perfect | tapers |  |  |  | day | bright, hardly *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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