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title: He walked about the streets for a long time, not knowing where to go… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked about the streets for a long time, not knowing where to go, but at length as he walked near the seashore he found a garden door open and walked in. Who acts: strength. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 99

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He walked about the streets for a long time, not knowing where to go, but at length as he walked near the seashore he found a garden door open and walked in.

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** walk, not know, go, find, walk in · **To what, where:** length, seashore, garden door

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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:pg128:25:99
# text = He walked about the streets for a long time, not knowing where to go, but at length as he walked near the seashore he found a garden door open and walked in.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | strength |  |  |  | time | about the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **walk** | past | strength | length *not said here* |  | the seashore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent length=Theme near seashore=Trajectory |
| 5 | **find** | past | strength | a garden door |  | length |  | open *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent door=Theme at length=Asset |
| 6 | **walk in** | past | strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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