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title: Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls. — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls. Who acts: Other fishes, cubit. 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 61

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Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.

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**Who acts:** Other fishes, cubit · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** cubit, heads

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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 (Other fishes, cubit), 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:pg128:13:61
# text = Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cubit	cubit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	owls	owl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Other fishes | a cubit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | a cubit | heads |  |  |  | like owls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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