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title: When at last we came to ourselves the giant sat examining us attenti… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last we came to ourselves the giant sat examining us attentively with his fearful eye. Who acts: we, giant. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 10

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When at last we came to ourselves the giant sat examining us attentively with his fearful eye.

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**Who acts:** we, giant · **What happens:** come, sit, examine · **To what, where:** ourselves, last, us

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, giant), 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:pg128:15:10
# text = When at last we came to ourselves the giant sat examining us attentively with his fearful eye.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | we |  | ourselves | last |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ourselves=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **examine** | gerund | the giant *not said here* | us |  |  |  | with giant's fearful eye; attentively *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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