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title: The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught had produced and that I carried him more lightly than usual, so he stretched out his skinny hand and seizing the gourd first tasted its contents cautiously, then drained them to the very last drop. Who acts: old monster, I, monster
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 14

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The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught had produced and that I carried him more lightly than usual, so he stretched out his skinny hand and seizing the gourd first tasted its contents cautiously, then drained them to the very last drop.

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**Who acts:** old monster, I, monster, seizing · **What happens:** not be, perceive, produce, carry, stretch out, seize · **To what, where:** effect, monster, skinny hand, gourd, contents, gourds

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old monster, I, monster, seizing), 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:pg128:17:14
# text = The old monster was not slow to perceive the effect which my draught had produced and that I carried him more lightly than usual, so he stretched out his skinny hand and seizing the gourd first tasted its contents cautiously, then drained them to the very last drop.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	skinny	skinny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	csubj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	gourd	gourd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	advmod	_	_
38	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	38	obj	_	_
41	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	drained	drain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the old monster |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | the old monster *not said here* | the effect |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer effect=Stimulus |
| 3 | **produce** | past · perfect · passive |  | the effect |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **carry** | past | I | monster |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **stretch out** | past | monster | monster's skinny hand |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 6 | **seize** | gerund |  | the gourd |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gourd=Theme |
| 7 | **taste** | past | seizing | draught's contents |  |  |  | cautiously, first *property* | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme contents=Attribute |
| 8 | **drain** | past | the old monster *not said here* | gourds *= gourd* |  | the last drop | then |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to drop=Destination |

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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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