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title: Besides being very sorry for the poor man, the tailor and his wife w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides being very sorry for the poor man, the tailor and his wife were very much frightened on their own account, for if the police came to hear of it the worthy couple ran the risk of being thrown into prison for wilful murder. Who acts: police, worthy couple, tailor. A sentence of «The Arabian Ni
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 29

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Besides being very sorry for the poor man, the tailor and his wife were very much frightened on their own account, for if the police came to hear of it the worthy couple ran the risk of being thrown into prison for wilful murder.

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**Who acts:** police, worthy couple, tailor · **What happens:** be, frighten, come, hear, run, throw · **To what, where:** own account, risk, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (police, worthy couple, tailor), 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:pg128:19:29
# text = Besides being very sorry for the poor man, the tailor and his wife were very much frightened on their own account, for if the police came to hear of it the worthy couple ran the risk of being thrown into prison for wilful murder.
1	Besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
42	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	wilful	wilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	murder	murder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the poor man and the tailor and Hunchback's wife; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **frighten** | past · passive |  |  |  | tailor's own account |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the police |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the police *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **run** | past | the worthy couple | the risk |  |  |  | of account | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent risk=Theme of it=Trajectory |
| 6 | **throw** | gerund · passive |  | the risk *not said here* |  |  |  | into prison *result*; for wilful murder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into prison=Result |
| 7 | **account** |  | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=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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