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title: Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the spell laid on me, and noticing the way in which this woman had looked at me, the idea entered my head that perhaps she might have guessed what had happened, and in this I was not deceived. Who acts: thoughts, some, idea, woman. A s
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 54

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Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the spell laid on me, and noticing the way in which this woman had looked at me, the idea entered my head that perhaps she might have guessed what had happened, and in this I was not deceived.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, some, idea, woman, my · **What happens:** run, mean, shake off, lay, notice, look · **To what, where:** spell, way, woman, head, I, this

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, some, idea, 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:pg128:35:54
# text = Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the spell laid on me, and noticing the way in which this woman had looked at me, the idea entered my head that perhaps she might have guessed what had happened, and in this I was not deceived.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obj	_	_
38	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux	_	_
42	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	obl	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | my thoughts |  |  |  | now | always *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **mean** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shake off** | gerund | some *not said here* | the spell |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spell=Patient |
| 4 | **lay** | participle |  | the spell *not said here* |  |  |  | on me | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination |
| 5 | **notice** | gerund | my thoughts *not said here* | the way |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 6 | **look** | past · perfect · passive |  | this woman |  | the way |  | at me | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 7 | **enter** | past | the idea | my head |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Destination |
| 8 | **guess** | might · perfect | woman | my head |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 9 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **deceive** | past · passive |  | I |  | this |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 11 | **think** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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