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title: Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained behind it so many curious things that I had no chance of feeling dull, much as I regretted the absence of the ladies. Who acts: I, two fresh doors, chance. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 66

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Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained behind it so many curious things that I had no chance of feeling dull, much as I regretted the absence of the ladies.

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**Who acts:** I, two fresh doors, chance · **What happens:** open, contain, have, feel, regret, absent · **To what, where:** many curious things, prudence, absence, 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 (I, two fresh doors, chance), 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:pg128:12:66
# text = Every day I opened two or three fresh doors, each of which contained behind it so many curious things that I had no chance of feeling dull, much as I regretted the absence of the ladies.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nmod	_	_
14	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | I |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | past | two fresh doors | many curious things |  | prudence |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | I | many curious things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | no chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **regret** | past | I | the absence of the ladies |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus |
| 6 | **absent** |  |  | the ladies |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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