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title: Walk on till you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Walk on till you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 6

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Walk on till you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** walk, come, stand, light · **To what, where:** niche, lighted lamp

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg128:31:6
# text = Walk on till you come to a niche in a terrace where stands a lighted lamp.
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	niche	niche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
13	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | you |  |  | a niche in a terrace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to niche=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stand** | present |  | a lighted lamp |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lamp=Stimulus |
| 4 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «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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