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title: However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more wandered among the trees, but always with some anxiety as to what I might see next. Who acts: morning sunlight, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 4

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However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more wandered among the trees, but always with some anxiety as to what I might see next.

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**Who acts:** morning sunlight, I · **What happens:** restore, wander, see · **To what, where:** courage, trees, anxiety

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morning sunlight, I), 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:pg128:17:4
# text = However, the morning sunlight restored my courage, and I once more wandered among the trees, but always with some anxiety as to what I might see next.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
30	next	next	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | past | the morning sunlight | my courage |  |  |  | however *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 2 | **wander** | past | I |  |  | the trees |  | with some anxiety; once *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | might | I | some anxiety |  |  |  | next *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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