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title: I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about half a mile from shore. Who acts: I, vessel. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 4

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I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about half a mile from shore.

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**Who acts:** I, vessel · **What happens:** travel, be, see, moor · **To what, where:** plain, vessel, mile, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vessel), 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:pg128:10:4
# text = I travelled towards it, and was pleased to see a vessel moored about half a mile from shore.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	moored	moor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	17	det:predet	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | I |  |  | plain |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a vessel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |
| 4 | **moor** | participle | a vessel *not said here* | half mile |  | shore |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme mile=Destination |

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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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