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title: When I heard this I went home much cast down, and from that time for… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When I heard this I went home much cast down, and from that time forward my mind was never easy. Who acts: I, mind, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 46

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When I heard this I went home much cast down, and from that time forward my mind was never easy.

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**Who acts:** I, mind, my · **What happens:** hear, go, cast down, forward, not be, mind · **To what, where:** this

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, mind, my), 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:pg128:16:46
# text = When I heard this I went home much cast down, and from that time forward my mind was never easy.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	forward	forward	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | I | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | I |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cast down** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **forward** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | my mind |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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