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title: But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. " — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. " Who acts: Vizir. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 101

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But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. "

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**Who acts:** Vizir · **What happens:** see, ask, be · **To what, where:** eyes, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vizir), 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:pg128:1:101
# text = But seeing her eyes full of tears, he asked what was the matter. "
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Vizir *not said here* | Dinarzade's eyes |  |  |  | full *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Vizir |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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