--- title: When I had climbed a tall tree I first of all directed my anxious gl… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When I had climbed a tall tree I first of all directed my anxious glances towards the sea; but, finding nothing hopeful there, I turned landward, and my curiosity was excited by a huge dazzling white object, so far off that I could not make out what it might be. Who acts: I, curiosity, my. A sentenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/15/) [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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/) / 15 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 15 When I had climbed a tall tree I first of all directed my anxious glances towards the sea; but, finding nothing hopeful there, I turned landward, and my curiosity was excited by a huge dazzling white object, so far off that I could not make out what it might be. **Who acts:** I, curiosity, my · **What happens:** climb, direct, find, turn, be, not make out · **To what, where:** tall tree, nothing This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, curiosity, my), 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:pg128:14:15 # text = When I had climbed a tall tree I first of all directed my anxious glances towards the sea; but, finding nothing hopeful there, I turned landward, and my curiosity was excited by a huge dazzling white object, so far off that I could not make out what it might be. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 climbed climb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 9 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 12 directed direct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 glances glance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 ccomp _ _ 23 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 obj _ _ 24 hopeful hopeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 landward landward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 excited excited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 38 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 39 dazzling dazzling NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 50 advmod _ _ 45 off off ADP IN _ 50 mark _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 fixed _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 48 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 49 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 50 advmod _ _ 50 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 51 out out ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 52 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 55 obj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | past · perfect | I | a tall tree | | | | of my directed anxious glances; towards the sea | tree rules | | 2 | **direct** | participle | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | gerund | I *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 4 | **turn** | past | I | | | | | landward *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | my curiosity | | | | | by a huge dazzling white object; excited *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **make out** | could | I | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | might | curiosity | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 8 | **glance** | | my | | | | | | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/16/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/)