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title: It would be enough for me to stand outside and view whatever hidden… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be enough for me to stand outside and view whatever hidden wonders might be therein. Who acts: inspiration, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 74

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It would be enough for me to stand outside and view whatever hidden wonders might be therein.

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**Who acts:** inspiration, me · **What happens:** be, stand, view · **To what, where:** whatever

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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 (inspiration, me), 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:pg128:12:74
# text = It would be enough for me to stand outside and view whatever hidden wonders might be therein.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	view	view	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | inspiration |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive | me |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **view** | infinitive | me *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | therein *property* | 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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