--- title: When we came to her house, which was some distance off, she opened t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When we came to her house, which was some distance off, she opened the door and then said to me, "Come in, come in; you will never be sorry that you followed me." Who acts: we, house, woman, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/) / 58 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 58 When we came to her house, which was some distance off, she opened the door and then said to me, "Come in, come in; you will never be sorry that you followed me." **Who acts:** we, house, woman, you · **What happens:** come off, be, open, say, come in, not be · **To what, where:** distance, door, me, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we, house, woman, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:35:58 # text = When we came to her house, which was some distance off, she opened the door and then said to me, "Come in, come in; you will never be sorry that you followed me." 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 12 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 29 in in ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 parataxis _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come off** | past | we | | | | | to woman's house and some distance | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | past | woman's house and some distance | some distance | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | past | woman | the door | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* | | me | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **come in** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **come in** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | you | woman | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/35/)