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title: You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returne… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returned eager to devour me, and glided round and round my frail shelter seeking an entrance. Who acts: You, I, snake. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 43

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You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returned eager to devour me, and glided round and round my frail shelter seeking an entrance.

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**Who acts:** You, I, snake · **What happens:** imagine, pass, return, devour, glide, round · **To what, where:** fearful night, me, frail shelter, entrance

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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 (You, I, snake), 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:pg128:15:43
# text = You may imagine what a fearful night I passed, for the snake returned eager to devour me, and glided round and round my frail shelter seeking an entrance.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	glided	glide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	frail	frail	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | may | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | I | a fearful night *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme night=Trajectory |
| 3 | **return** | past | the snake |  |  |  |  | eager *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **devour** | to-infinitive | the snake *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **glide** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **round** | infinitive |  | my frail shelter |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient |
| 7 | **seek** | gerund |  | a entrance |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=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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