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title: Through each of these doors I caught glimpses of splendid gardens or… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Through each of these doors I caught glimpses of splendid gardens or of rich storehouses. 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 46

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Through each of these doors I caught glimpses of splendid gardens or of rich storehouses.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** catch, glimpse · **To what, where:** glimpses, each, splendid gardens

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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:pg128:12:46
# text = Through each of these doors I caught glimpses of splendid gardens or of rich storehouses.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	glimpses	glimpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	storehouses	storehouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | I | glimpses of splendid gardens or rich storehouses |  | each |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 2 | **glimpse** |  |  | splendid gardens or rich storehouses |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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