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title: Then, placing myself in safety, I hastily spread my clothes out to d… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, placing myself in safety, I hastily spread my clothes out to dry in the sun, and flung myself on the warm ground to rest. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 46

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Then, placing myself in safety, I hastily spread my clothes out to dry in the sun, and flung myself on the warm ground to rest.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** place, spread out, dry, fling, rest · **To what, where:** myself, safety, clothes, sun, warm ground

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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), 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:pg128:11:46
# text = Then, placing myself in safety, I hastily spread my clothes out to dry in the sun, and flung myself on the warm ground to rest.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund | I *not said here* | myself |  | safety | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme in safety=Destination |
| 2 | **spread out** | past | I | my clothes |  |  |  | hastily, out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clothes=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fling** | past | I *not said here* | myself |  | the warm ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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