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title: And the first time that they had the opportunity of speaking to each… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And the first time that they had the opportunity of speaking to each other, which was not till several days later at a public bath, they did not attempt to disguise their feelings. Who acts: festivities, opportunity. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40,
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 71

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And the first time that they had the opportunity of speaking to each other, which was not till several days later at a public bath, they did not attempt to disguise their feelings.

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**Who acts:** festivities, opportunity · **What happens:** have, speak, not be, not disguise · **To what, where:** opportunity, public bath, feelings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festivities, opportunity), 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:pg128:40:71
# text = And the first time that they had the opportunity of speaking to each other, which was not till several days later at a public bath, they did not attempt to disguise their feelings.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
20	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	appos	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	disguise	disguise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | festivities *= festivity* | the opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | the opportunity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past · do-support | the opportunity |  |  | a public bath |  | attempt, late *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **disguise** | to-infinitive | the opportunity *not said here* | festivities's feelings |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feeling=Destination |

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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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