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title: Looking from a lattice which opened into the court, I saw her in the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Looking from a lattice which opened into the court, I saw her in the act of passing through the street door, which she carefully left open. Who acts: I, lattice, act, Amina. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 89

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Looking from a lattice which opened into the court, I saw her in the act of passing through the street door, which she carefully left open.

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**Who acts:** I, lattice, act, Amina · **What happens:** look, open, see, pass, leave · **To what, where:** court, Amina, act, street door

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, lattice, act, Amina), 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:pg128:34:89
# text = Looking from a lattice which opened into the court, I saw her in the act of passing through the street door, which she carefully left open.
1	Looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lattice	lattice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from a lattice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from lattice=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | a lattice |  |  | the court |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into court=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | past | I | Amina |  | the act |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | the act *not said here* |  |  | the street door |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through door=Location |
| 5 | **leave** | past | Amina | the street door |  |  |  | carefully, open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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