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title: When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant. Who acts: I, flinging. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Ent
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 32

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When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant.

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**Who acts:** I, flinging · **What happens:** reach, find, describe, weary, go, do · **To what, where:** top, brass dome, pilot, all, glance, myself

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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 (I, flinging), 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:pg128:11:32
# text = When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	obl	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	35	advmod	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	_
35	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	csubj	_	_
42	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | I | the top |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | I | the brass dome and the statue |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dome=Topic |
| 3 | **describe** | past · perfect · passive |  | the pilot |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **weary** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | glance |  |  |  | at steps *= step* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fling** | gerund |  | myself |  | the dome |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme under dome=Destination |
| 8 | **is** | past | flinging |  |  | a instant |  | asleep *property* | 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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