--- title: Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music of instruments and the sound of laughter, and had ordered his vizir to go and knock at the door of the house, as he wished to enter. Who acts: music, vizir, Caliph. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, O --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/70/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/) / 70 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 70 Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music of instruments and the sound of laughter, and had ordered his vizir to go and knock at the door of the house, as he wished to enter. **Who acts:** music, vizir, Caliph · **What happens:** pass down, attract, order, go, knock, wish · **To what, where:** street, Caliph, vizir 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 (music, vizir, Caliph), 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:pg128:6:70 # text = Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music of instruments and the sound of laughter, and had ordered his vizir to go and knock at the door of the house, as he wished to enter. 1 Passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 2 down down ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 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 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 attracted attract VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 vizir vizir NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 enter enter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass down** | gerund | the music of instruments and the sound of laughter *not said here* | the street | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory | | 2 | **attract** | past · perfect · passive | the music of instruments and the sound of laughter | the Caliph | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 3 | **order** | past · perfect | | Caliph's vizir | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent vizir=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Caliph's vizir *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **knock** | infinitive | Caliph's vizir *not said here* | | | | | at the door of the house | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | | 6 | **wish** | past | Caliph | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Caliph *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/71/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/6/)