--- title: When she was about to turn them on the other side, the wall opened,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When she was about to turn them on the other side, the wall opened, the damsel appeared, addressed the same words to the fish, received the same answer, and then overturned the pan and disappeared. Who acts: cook, wall, damsel. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/29/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/) / 29 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 29 When she was about to turn them on the other side, the wall opened, the damsel appeared, addressed the same words to the fish, received the same answer, and then overturned the pan and disappeared. **Who acts:** cook, wall, damsel · **What happens:** be, turn, open, appear, address, receive · **To what, where:** fish, other side, same words, same answer, pan This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, wall, damsel), 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:pg128:5:29 # text = When she was about to turn them on the other side, the wall opened, the damsel appeared, addressed the same words to the fish, received the same answer, and then overturned the pan and disappeared. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 addressed address VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 overturned overturn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 disappeared disappear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | cook | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | to-infinitive | cook *not said here* | fish | | the other side | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **open** | past | the wall | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **appear** | past | the damsel | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **address** | past | the damsel *not said here* | the same words | | | | to the fish | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Destination | | 6 | **receive** | past | the damsel *not said here* | the same answer | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | | 7 | **overturn** | past | the damsel *not said here* | the pan | | | then | | tree rules | | 8 | **disappear** | past | the damsel *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/5/)