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title: The porter, more than ever alarmed at the sight of so much magnifice… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The porter, more than ever alarmed at the sight of so much magnificence, tremblingly saluted the noble company. Who acts: porter. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 24

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The porter, more than ever alarmed at the sight of so much magnificence, tremblingly saluted the noble company.

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**Who acts:** porter · **What happens:** alarm, salute, sight · **To what, where:** sight, noble company, much magnificence

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter), 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:pg128:13:24
# text = The porter, more than ever alarmed at the sight of so much magnificence, tremblingly saluted the noble company.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	tremblingly	tremblingly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	saluted	salute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alarm** | participle | the porter *not said here* |  |  | the sight of much magnificence | ever |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **salute** | past | the porter | the noble company |  |  |  | tremblingly *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Topic |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | much magnificence |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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