--- title: So they were soon fat and there was an end of them, but I grew leane… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: So they were soon fat and there was an end of them, but I grew leaner day by day, for I ate but little, and even that little did me no good by reason of my fear of what lay before me. Who acts: companions, end, I, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/91/) [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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/) / 91 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 91 So they were soon fat and there was an end of them, but I grew leaner day by day, for I ate but little, and even that little did me no good by reason of my fear of what lay before me. **Who acts:** companions, end, I, my · **What happens:** be, grow, eat, do, lay, fear · **To what, where:** me, reason This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, end, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:15:91 # text = So they were soon fat and there was an end of them, but I grew leaner day by day, for I ate but little, and even that little did me no good by reason of my fear of what lay before me. 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 17 leaner lean ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 32 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 no no ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nmod _ _ 43 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 acl:relcl _ _ 44 before before ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | companions *= companion* | | | | | fat, soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | past | a end of companions | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | I | | | | day | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | past | I | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | past | I *not said here* | me | | | | by reason of my fear of reason of my fear of reason; good, little *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | | 6 | **lay** | present | | | | | before me | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before i=Destination | | 7 | **fear** | | my | reason of my fear of reason of my fear | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/92/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/15/)