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title: When night came I slept sweetly in a cosy nook, though the remembran… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertain
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 3

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg128:17:3
# text = 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.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nook	nook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	though	though	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
30	around	around	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
39	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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