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title: What was my joy on finding myself at the bottom of some steps which… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: What was my joy on finding myself at the bottom of some steps which led straight up the mountain, for there was not another inch to the right or the left where a man could set his foot. Who acts: right, joy, steps, man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 30

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What was my joy on finding myself at the bottom of some steps which led straight up the mountain, for there was not another inch to the right or the left where a man could set his foot.

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**Who acts:** right, joy, steps, man · **What happens:** be, find, lead, set · **To what, where:** joy, myself, bottom, mountain, foot

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right, joy, steps, man), 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:pg128:11:30
# text = What was my joy on finding myself at the bottom of some steps which led straight up the mountain, for there was not another inch to the right or the left where a man could set his foot.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the right or the left | my joy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | my joy *not said here* | myself |  | the bottom of some steps |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent myself=Theme at bottom=Asset |
| 3 | **lead** | past | some steps | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the right or the left | tree rules |
| 5 | **set** | could | a man | man's foot |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |

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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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