---
title: Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their di… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their disappointment, and with one accord they fell to abusing me for having robbed them of their usual profit. Who acts: amazement, merchants. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dep
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/46/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/) / 46

# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 46

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their disappointment, and with one accord they fell to abusing me for having robbed them of their usual profit.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** amazement, merchants · **What happens:** be, discover, fall, abuse, rob, amaze · **To what, where:** me, merchants

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, merchants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg128:14:46
# text = Their amazement was great when they discovered me, and also their disappointment, and with one accord they fell to abusing me for having robbed them of their usual profit.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	abusing	abuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	aux	_	_
26	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | merchants's amazement |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discover** | past | merchants *= merchant* | me |  |  |  | merchants's disappointment *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic |
| 3 | **fall** | past | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  | with one accord | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **abuse** | gerund | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **rob** | gerund · perfect | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  | of merchants's usual profit | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme of profit=Source |
| 6 | **amaze** |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **disappoint** |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **profit** |  | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/45/)
- next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/47/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/14/)