--- title: All that has happened to you," they said, "we also have undergone, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: All that has happened to you," they said, "we also have undergone, and we should be enjoying the same happiness still, had we not opened the Golden Door while the princesses were absent. Who acts: that, wonders, we, princesses. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/) / 87 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 87 All that has happened to you," they said, "we also have undergone, and we should be enjoying the same happiness still, had we not opened the Golden Door while the princesses were absent. **Who acts:** that, wonders, we, princesses · **What happens:** happen, say, undergo, enjoy, have, not open · **To what, where:** you, we, same happiness, Golden Door · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (that, wonders, we, princesses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:12:87 # text = All that has happened to you," they said, "we also have undergone, and we should be enjoying the same happiness still, had we not opened the Golden Door while the princesses were absent. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 undergone undergo VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 enjoying enjoy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 Door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 absent absent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present · perfect | that | | you | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | wonders *= wonder* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **undergo** | present · perfect · passive | | we | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **enjoy** | should · progressive | we | the same happiness | | | still | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | past | wonders *= wonder* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **open** | past | we | the Golden Door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | the princesses | | | | | absent *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/12/)