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title: They all came back to the house, but what was his surprise to find t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They all came back to the house, but what was his surprise to find the door open, and the room with the chests of gold quite empty. Who acts: brother. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 70

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They all came back to the house, but what was his surprise to find the door open, and the room with the chests of gold quite empty.

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**Who acts:** brother · **What happens:** come back, be, find · **To what, where:** house, surprise, door

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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 (brother), 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:pg128:21:70
# text = They all came back to the house, but what was his surprise to find the door open, and the room with the chests of gold quite empty.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	chests	chest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | brother |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Alnaschar's surprise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the door |  |  |  | open *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic |

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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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