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title: As soon as he had finished his horrible repast he lay down to sleep… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he had finished his horrible repast he lay down to sleep as before, and when we heard him begin to snore I, and nine of the boldest of my comrades, rose softly, and took each a spit, which we made red-hot in the fire, and then at a given signal we plunged it with one accord into the giant
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 26

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As soon as he had finished his horrible repast he lay down to sleep as before, and when we heard him begin to snore I, and nine of the boldest of my comrades, rose softly, and took each a spit, which we made red-hot in the fire, and then at a given signal we plunged it with one accord into the giant's eye, completely blinding him.

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**Who acts:** number, we, spit · **What happens:** finish, lie down, sleep, hear, begin, snore · **To what, where:** horrible repast, nine, number, I, spit, fire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (number, we, spit), 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:pg128:15:26
# text = As soon as he had finished his horrible repast he lay down to sleep as before, and when we heard him begin to snore I, and nine of the boldest of my comrades, rose softly, and took each a spit, which we made red-hot in the fire, and then at a given signal we plunged it with one accord into the giant's eye, completely blinding him.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
38	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
42	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
57	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	63	advmod	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
62	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	_
65	with	with	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	67	nummod	_	_
67	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
68	into	into	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	's	's	PART	POS	_	70	case	_	_
72	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
74	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
75	blinding	blind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	63	advcl	_	_
76	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	75	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | number | number's horrible repast |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector repast=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | number | nine of the boldest |  |  |  | down, soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past | we | number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **snore** | to-infinitive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 7 | **rise** | past | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **take** | past | number *not said here* | each spit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spit=Theme |
| 9 | **make** | past | each spit |  |  | the fire |  | hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 10 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 11 | **plunge** | past | we | repast |  | a given signal | then | with one accord; into the giant's eye | tree rules |
| 12 | **blind** | gerund | we *not said here* | number |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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