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title: She has circulated a story that, while at dinner with her, you remem… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She has circulated a story that, while at dinner with her, you remembered some important business that had to be done at once, and left the house without shutting the door. Who acts: story, important business. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with i
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 86

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She has circulated a story that, while at dinner with her, you remembered some important business that had to be done at once, and left the house without shutting the door.

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**Who acts:** story, important business · **What happens:** circulate, remember, have, do, leave, shut · **To what, where:** daughter, important business, dinner, house, door

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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 (story, important business), 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:pg128:35:86
# text = She has circulated a story that, while at dinner with her, you remembered some important business that had to be done at once, and left the house without shutting the door.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	circulated	circulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	shutting	shut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **circulate** | present · perfect · passive |  | daughter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | past | a story | some important business |  | dinner with daughter |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | some important business |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | some important business *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **leave** | past | a story *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 6 | **shut** | gerund | a story *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |

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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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