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title: Then, fearing to be punished as his murderer by the unhappy father,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, fearing to be punished as his murderer by the unhappy father, I raised the great stone which blocked the staircase, and quitting the underground chamber, made everything fast as before. Who acts: I, unhappy father, great stone. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 86

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Then, fearing to be punished as his murderer by the unhappy father, I raised the great stone which blocked the staircase, and quitting the underground chamber, made everything fast as before.

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**Who acts:** I, unhappy father, great stone · **What happens:** fear, punish, raise, block, quit, make · **To what, where:** great stone, staircase, underground chamber, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, unhappy father, great stone), 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:pg128:11:86
# text = Then, fearing to be punished as his murderer by the unhappy father, I raised the great stone which blocked the staircase, and quitting the underground chamber, made everything fast as before.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	murderer	murderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	blocked	block	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	quitting	quit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	obj	_	_
33	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	before	before	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive · passive | the unhappy father |  |  |  |  | as father's murderer | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as murderer=Attribute |
| 3 | **raise** | past | I | the great stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **block** | past | the great stone | the staircase |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer staircase=Theme |
| 5 | **quit** | gerund | I *not said here* | the underground chamber |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Source |
| 6 | **make** | past | I *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | before, fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |

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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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