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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 75

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Thus arguing against my own conscience, I turned the key, when a smell rushed out that, pleasant though it was, overcame me completely, and I fell fainting across the threshold.

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**Who acts:** I, smell · **What happens:** argue, turn, rush out, be, fall, faint · **To what, where:** key, smell, threshold

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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, smell), 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:pg128:12:75
# text = Thus arguing against my own conscience, I turned the key, when a smell rushed out that, pleasant though it was, overcame me completely, and I fell fainting across the threshold.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	overcame	overcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	across	across	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against my own conscience; thus *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | past | I | the key |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 3 | **rush out** | participle | a smell *not said here* | a smell |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | smell |  |  |  |  | completely, overcome *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **faint** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the threshold |  |  | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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