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title: I can remember reading "The Arabian Nights" when I was six years old… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I can remember reading "The Arabian Nights" when I was six years old, in dirty yellow old volumes of small type with no pictures, and I hope children who read them with Mr. Ford's pictures will be as happy as I was then in the company of Aladdin and Sindbad the Sailor. Who acts: I, children. A sente
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

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I can remember reading "The Arabian Nights" when I was six years old, in dirty yellow old volumes of small type with no pictures, and I hope children who read them with Mr. Ford's pictures will be as happy as I was then in the company of Aladdin and Sindbad the Sailor.

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**Who acts:** I, children · **What happens:** remember, read, be, hope · **To what, where:** Arabian Nights, pictures, company · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, children), 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:pg128:1:43
# text = I can remember reading "The Arabian Nights" when I was six years old, in dirty yellow old volumes of small type with no pictures, and I hope children who read them with Mr. Ford's pictures will be as happy as I was then in the company of Aladdin and Sindbad the Sailor.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Nights	Night	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	ccomp	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
48	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	xcomp	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **read** | gerund | I *not said here* | the Arabian Nights |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent night=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **read** | present | children | pictures *= picture* |  |  |  | with Ford  Mr.'s pictures | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | future | children |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the company | then | of Aladdin and Sindbad | 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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