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title: I stood before the forbidden place for some time, gazing at its beau… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I stood before the forbidden place for some time, gazing at its beauty; then a happy inspiration struck me, that because I unlocked the door it was not necessary that I should enter the chamber. Who acts: I, happy inspiration. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 73

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I stood before the forbidden place for some time, gazing at its beauty; then a happy inspiration struck me, that because I unlocked the door it was not necessary that I should enter the chamber.

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**Who acts:** I, happy inspiration · **What happens:** stand, gaze, strike, unlock, not be, enter · **To what, where:** forbidden place, me, door, chamber

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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, happy inspiration), 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:pg128:12:73
# text = I stood before the forbidden place for some time, gazing at its beauty; then a happy inspiration struck me, that because I unlocked the door it was not necessary that I should enter the chamber.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	forbidden	forbidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	unlocked	unlock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	expl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | I |  |  | the forbidden place | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before place=Location |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at place's beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | past | a happy inspiration | me |  |  | then | that *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument |
| 4 | **unlock** | past | I | the door |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enter** | should | I | the chamber |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |

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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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