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title: In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard a knock at the outer door, which Sadie rose to open. Who acts: tapers, Sadie. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 49

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In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard a knock at the outer door, which Sadie rose to open.

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**Who acts:** tapers, Sadie · **What happens:** enjoy, hear, rise, open · **To what, where:** tapers, fact, knock, outer door

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tapers, Sadie), 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:pg128:6:49
# text = In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard a knock at the outer door, which Sadie rose to open.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	Sadie	Sadie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | past · progressive | tapers *= taper* | tapers *= taper* |  | fact |  | all, mightily *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | past | tapers *= taper* | a knock |  | the outer door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rise** | past | Sadie | the outer door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | to-infinitive | Sadie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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