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title: I spent the next thirty-nine days in much the same way as the first,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I spent the next thirty-nine days in much the same way as the first, but at the close of that time the ladies appeared (as was their custom) in my room one morning to inquire how I had slept, and instead of looking cheerful and smiling they were in floods of tears. " Who acts: I, ladies. A sentence 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 55

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I spent the next thirty-nine days in much the same way as the first, but at the close of that time the ladies appeared (as was their custom) in my room one morning to inquire how I had slept, and instead of looking cheerful and smiling they were in floods of tears. "

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**Who acts:** I, ladies · **What happens:** spend, appear, be, inquire, sleep, look · **To what, where:** same way, close, floods

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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, ladies), 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:pg128:12:55
# text = I spent the next thirty-nine days in much the same way as the first, but at the close of that time the ladies appeared (as was their custom) in my room one morning to inquire how I had slept, and instead of looking cheerful and smiling they were in floods of tears. "
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
41	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	44	advmod	_	_
42	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	49	mark	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
50	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	conj	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
60	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | I |  |  | the same way | day | as the first | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as first=Attribute |
| 2 | **appear** | past |  |  |  | the close of that time  the ladies | morning | in my room | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at close=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as ladies's custom | tree rules |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cheerful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **smile** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | ladies *= lady* |  |  | floods |  | of tears | 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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