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title: Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore. Who acts: way, we, good luck. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 53

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Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.

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**Who acts:** way, we, good luck · **What happens:** lie, infest, have, escape, come · **To what, where:** high mountains, good luck, mountains, last

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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 (way, we, good luck), 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:pg128:14:53
# text = Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	infested	infest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Our way | high mountains |  |  |  | across *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme |
| 2 | **infest** | participle |  | high mountains *not said here* |  |  |  | with frightful serpents | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with serpent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | we | the good luck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the good luck *not said here* | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | past | we *not said here* |  |  | last |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |

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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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