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title: Going down one street, the Caliph's attention was attracted by a noi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Going down one street, the Caliph's attention was attracted by a noise, and looking through a door which opened into a court he perceived ten or twelve children playing in the moonlight. Who acts: noise, door, officer, ten children. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, O
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 99

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Going down one street, the Caliph's attention was attracted by a noise, and looking through a door which opened into a court he perceived ten or twelve children playing in the moonlight.

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**Who acts:** noise, door, officer, ten children, Caliph · **What happens:** go down, attract, look, open, perceive, play · **To what, where:** one street, attention, court, ten children, moonlight

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, door, officer, ten children), 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:pg128:36:99
# text = Going down one street, the Caliph's attention was attracted by a noise, and looking through a door which opened into a court he perceived ten or twelve children playing in the moonlight.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | gerund | a noise *not said here* | one street |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **attract** | past · passive | a noise | the Caliph's attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | a noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through a door | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through door=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past | a door |  |  | a court |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into court=Recipient |
| 5 | **perceive** | past | officer | ten children |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | ten children *not said here* |  |  | the moonlight |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **attend** |  | the Caliph |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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