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title: All day long I toiled with frantic haste and collected quantities of… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All day long I toiled with frantic haste and collected quantities of dry brushwood, reeds and thorns, which I bound with faggots, and making a circle of them under my tree I piled them firmly one upon another until I had a kind of tent in which I crouched like a mouse in a hole when she sees the cat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 42

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All day long I toiled with frantic haste and collected quantities of dry brushwood, reeds and thorns, which I bound with faggots, and making a circle of them under my tree I piled them firmly one upon another until I had a kind of tent in which I crouched like a mouse in a hole when she sees the cat coming.

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**Who acts:** I, mouse, cat · **What happens:** toil, collect, bound, make, pile, have · **To what, where:** quantities, reeds, circle, tree, kind, tent

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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 (I, mouse, cat), 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:pg128:15:42
# text = All day long I toiled with frantic haste and collected quantities of dry brushwood, reeds and thorns, which I bound with faggots, and making a circle of them under my tree I piled them firmly one upon another until I had a kind of tent in which I crouched like a mouse in a hole when she sees the cat coming.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	frantic	frantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	faggots	faggot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	piled	pile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obj	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	nmod	_	_
42	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
51	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
53	like	like	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
59	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	61	mark	_	_
60	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	63	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | I |  |  |  |  | with frantic haste; long *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **collect** | past | I *not said here* | quantities of dry brushwood |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 3 | **bound** | present | I | reeds and thorns |  |  |  | with faggots | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location which=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | I *not said here* | a circle of faggots |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circle=Product |
| 5 | **pile** | past | I | quantities *= quantity* |  | my tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | I | a kind of tent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 7 | **crouch** | past | I |  |  | tent |  | like a mouse; in a hole | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 8 | **see** | present | mouse | the cat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus |
| 9 | **come** | gerund | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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