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title: Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining. Who acts: doors, I, perfect beauty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dep
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 47

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Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining.

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**Who acts:** doors, I, perfect beauty · **What happens:** enter, stand, find, dress, recline · **To what, where:** one, vast hall, forty young ladies

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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 (doors, I, perfect beauty), 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:pg128:12:47
# text = Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining.
1	Entering	enter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
18	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	reclining	recline	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the doors |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | I | one of the doors |  | a vast hall |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 4 | **dress** | participle · passive |  | forty young ladies |  |  |  | magnificently *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **recline** | past · progressive | perfect beauty |  |  |  |  |  | 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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