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title: When he had reached a prodigious height, he next darted back to eart… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had reached a prodigious height, he next darted back to earth, and alighted on the terrace belonging to a castle, shaking me violently out of the saddle as he did so, and giving me such a blow with his tail, that he knocked out my right eye. Who acts: animal, terrace. A sentence of «The Arab
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

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When he had reached a prodigious height, he next darted back to earth, and alighted on the terrace belonging to a castle, shaking me violently out of the saddle as he did so, and giving me such a blow with his tail, that he knocked out my right eye.

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**Who acts:** animal, terrace · **What happens:** reach, dart back, alight, belong, shake, do · **To what, where:** prodigious height, earth, terrace, me, saddle, blow

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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 (animal, terrace), 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:pg128:12:82
# text = When he had reached a prodigious height, he next darted back to earth, and alighted on the terrace belonging to a castle, shaking me violently out of the saddle as he did so, and giving me such a blow with his tail, that he knocked out my right eye.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	next	next	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
39	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	csubj	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	43	det:predet	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
51	out	out	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | animal | a prodigious height |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme |
| 2 | **dart back** | past | animal |  |  | earth |  | next *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination |
| 3 | **alight** | participle | animal *not said here* |  |  | the terrace |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | the terrace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a castle | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shake** | gerund | the terrace *not said here* | me |  | the saddle |  | violently *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out saddle=Trajectory |
| 6 | **do** | past | animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **give** | gerund |  | such blow | me |  |  | with animal's tail | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blow=Theme |
| 8 | **knock out** | past | animal | my right eye |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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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