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title: The door was opened by a young Greek slave, and the old woman led my… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The door was opened by a young Greek slave, and the old woman led my brother across a well-paved court into a well-furnished hall. Who acts: young Greek slave, old woman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 18

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The door was opened by a young Greek slave, and the old woman led my brother across a well-paved court into a well-furnished hall.

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**Who acts:** young Greek slave, old woman · **What happens:** open, lead, pave, furnish · **To what, where:** door, brother, paved court

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Greek slave, old woman), 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:pg128:21:18
# text = The door was opened by a young Greek slave, and the old woman led my brother across a well-paved court into a well-furnished hall.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive | a young Greek slave | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the old woman | my brother |  | a paved court |  | into a furnished hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brother=Theme across court=Destination |
| 3 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **furnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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