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title: I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lighted by tapers, scented… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lighted by tapers, scented with aloes and ambergris, standing in golden candle-sticks, whilst gold and silver lamps hung from the ceiling. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 77

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I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lighted by tapers, scented with aloes and ambergris, standing in golden candle-sticks, whilst gold and silver lamps hung from the ceiling.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, light, scent, stand, hang · **To what, where:** myself, large vaulted room, tapers, golden candle sticks, silver lamps, ceiling

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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), 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:pg128:12:77
# text = I found myself in a large, vaulted room, lighted by tapers, scented with aloes and ambergris, standing in golden candle-sticks, whilst gold and silver lamps hung from the ceiling.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	aloes	aloe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ambergris	ambergris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I | myself |  | a large vaulted room |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 2 | **light** | participle |  | a large vaulted room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scent** | participle |  | tapers *not said here* |  |  |  | with aloes and ambergris | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with aloe=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | golden candle sticks |  | whilst gold and silver lamps | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stick=Location |
| 5 | **hang** | participle |  | silver lamps *not said here* |  | the ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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