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title: All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, a… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, and treasures were heaped in every cranny of the rocks, but all these things only added to the desolation of the scene. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 45

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All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, and treasures were heaped in every cranny of the rocks, but all these things only added to the desolation of the scene.

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**What happens:** lay, heap, add, desolate · **To what, where:** vast quantities, treasures, cranny, things, scene

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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: 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:pg128:17:45
# text = All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, and treasures were heaped in every cranny of the rocks, but all these things only added to the desolation of the scene.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	costliest	costly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	cranny	cranny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  | vast quantities of the costliest merchandise |  |  |  | around *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Result |
| 2 | **heap** | past · passive |  | treasures |  | every cranny of the rocks |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cranny=Destination |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | all things |  |  |  | to the desolation of the scene | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to desolation=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **desolate** |  |  | the scene |  |  |  |  | nom desolation «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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