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title: The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inche… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inches high and as thick as my finger; this was filled with the choicest pearls, large, and of perfect shape and lustre; secondly, a huge snake skin, with scales as large as a sequin, which would preserve from sickness those who slept up
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 21

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The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inches high and as thick as my finger; this was filled with the choicest pearls, large, and of perfect shape and lustre; secondly, a huge snake skin, with scales as large as a sequin, which would preserve from sickness those who slept upon it.

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**Who acts:** present, sequin · **What happens:** consist, carve, fill, preserve, sleep · **To what, where:** vase, single ruby, this

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, sequin), 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:pg128:18:21
# text = The present consisted of a vase carved from a single ruby, six inches high and as thick as my finger; this was filled with the choicest pearls, large, and of perfect shape and lustre; secondly, a huge snake skin, with scales as large as a sequin, which would preserve from sickness those who slept upon it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consisted	consist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ruby	ruby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
49	as	as	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
51	as	as	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	sequin	sequin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
56	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
60	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	59	nmod	_	_
61	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | past | the present |  |  |  |  | of a vase | tree rules |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  | a vase *not said here* |  | a single ruby |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | with the choicest pearls | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pearl=Instrument |
| 4 | **preserve** | would | a sequin |  |  |  |  | from sickness  those | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from sickness=Theme |
| 5 | **sleep** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon sickness | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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