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title: When they reached the house they found the table ready laid for supp… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the house they found the table ready laid for supper, and in a very few minutes all three were sitting before a beautiful fish which the tailor's wife had cooked with her own hands. Who acts: tailor, three. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 27

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When they reached the house they found the table ready laid for supper, and in a very few minutes all three were sitting before a beautiful fish which the tailor's wife had cooked with her own hands.

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**Who acts:** tailor, three · **What happens:** reach, find, lay, sit, cook · **To what, where:** house, table, wife

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, three), 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:pg128:19:27
# text = When they reached the house they found the table ready laid for supper, and in a very few minutes all three were sitting before a beautiful fish which the tailor's wife had cooked with her own hands.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | tailor | the house |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | tailor | the table |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |
| 3 | **lay** | participle |  | the table *not said here* |  |  |  | for supper | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for supper=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | all three |  |  |  | before a beautiful fish; minute |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fish=Location |
| 5 | **cook** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tailor's wife |  |  |  | with wife's own hands | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product |

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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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