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title: Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget to shut the house door, lest some passers-by might chance to see what had happened. Who acts: Moses, doctor. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 43

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Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget to shut the house door, lest some passers-by might chance to see what had happened.

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**Who acts:** Moses, doctor · **What happens:** agitate, be, not forget, shut, see, happen · **To what, where:** house door · **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 (Moses, doctor), 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:pg128:19:43
# text = Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget to shut the house door, lest some passers-by might chance to see what had happened.
1	Agitated	agitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agitate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** | past | Moses |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | past · do-support | the doctor |  |  |  |  | with reason | tree rules |
| 4 | **shut** | to-infinitive | the doctor *not said here* | the house door |  |  |  | lest some passers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the doctor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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