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title: Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for grante… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for granted that, in order to do this, it was only needful to turn the screw the reverse way; but, to his surprise and horror, he found that, turn as he might, he did not make the smallest impression. Who acts: Firouz, mountain, it. A sentenc
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 86

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Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for granted that, in order to do this, it was only needful to turn the screw the reverse way; but, to his surprise and horror, he found that, turn as he might, he did not make the smallest impression.

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**Who acts:** Firouz, mountain, it · **What happens:** begin, think, be, come down, take, grant · **To what, where:** time, that, this, screw, smallest impression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Firouz, mountain, it), 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:pg128:37:86
# text = Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for granted that, in order to do this, it was only needful to turn the screw the reverse way; but, to his surprise and horror, he found that, turn as he might, he did not make the smallest impression.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
20	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	fixed	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	screw	screw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	reverse	reverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	60	amod	_	_
60	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Firouz |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Firouz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | mountain | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come down** | to-infinitive | Firouz *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | Firouz *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 6 | **grant** | participle | Firouz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 8 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  | the screw |  |  |  | the reverse way *obl:unmarked* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screw=Theme |
| 10 | **find** | past | Firouz |  |  |  |  | to Firouz's surprise and horror | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 11 | **turn** | infinitive | Firouz *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **not** **make** | past · do-support | Firouz | the smallest impression |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Product |
| 13 | **surprise** |  | Firouz |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling 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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