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title: I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking s… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking stood before it, and gazed at it in astonishment, for it seemed to me the most wonderful building I had ever beheld. Who acts: I, it. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its depend
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 7

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I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking stood before it, and gazed at it in astonishment, for it seemed to me the most wonderful building I had ever beheld.

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**Who acts:** I, it · **What happens:** make, stand, gaze, seem, behold · **To what, where:** haste, wonderful building, me

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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, it), 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:pg128:12:7
# text = I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking stood before it, and gazed at it in astonishment, for it seemed to me the most wonderful building I had ever beheld.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	34	advmod	_	_
34	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
39	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | haste | after some miles of hard walking |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in astonishment; at haste | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it | the wonderful building | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Attribute |
| 5 | **behold** | past · perfect | I | the wonderful building *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer building=Stimulus |

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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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