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title: I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a stai… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection. Who acts: I, pulling, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 64

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I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection.

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**Who acts:** I, pulling, my · **What happens:** clear away, pull up, find, make up, go down, carry · **To what, where:** earth, door, staircase, hatchet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, pulling, my), 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:pg128:8:64
# text = I soon cleared away the earth, and pulling up the door, found a staircase, which I hastily made up my mind to go down, carrying my hatchet with me by way of protection.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clear away** | past | I | the earth |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent earth=Source |
| 2 | **pull up** | gerund |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | pulling | a staircase |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Topic |
| 4 | **make up** | past | I | a staircase |  |  |  | hastily *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go down** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund | pulling *not said here* | my hatchet |  |  |  | with me; by way of protection | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme |
| 7 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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