--- title: I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wander… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/62/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/) / 62 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 62 I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, wander, do, reach, begin, cut · **To what, where:** wood cutter, forest, delicious green glade, wood This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg128:8:62 # text = I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 cutter cutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 12 advmod _ _ 10 than than ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 further further ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 27 advmod _ _ 27 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 28 before before ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 glade glade NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | I | a wood cutter | | | year | | tree rules | | 2 | **wander** | past | I | | | the forest | day | further *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect | I | | | | ever | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reach** | past | I *not said here* | a delicious green glade | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent glade=Theme | | 5 | **begin** | past | I | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **cut** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/8/)