--- title: I pretended not to pay attention to anything she did, in the hope th… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/84/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/) / 84 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:34:84 # text = 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. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 6 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 expectations expectation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 quite quite ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/34/)