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title: I found it after wandering about for half a day, and never could I h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I found it after wandering about for half a day, and never could I have imagined anything so glorious. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 44

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I found it after wandering about for half a day, and never could I have imagined anything so glorious.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, wonder, not imagine · **To what, where:** castle, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. 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:pg128:12:44
# text = I found it after wandering about for half a day, and never could I have imagined anything so glorious.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I | castle |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | day | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **imagine** | could · perfect | I | anything |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=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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