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title: The corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows, till at length it occurred to him it was odd that the thief should lie so still and make no resistance. Who acts: corpse, man, thief, Scarcely. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 63

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The corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows, till at length it occurred to him it was odd that the thief should lie so still and make no resistance.

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**Who acts:** corpse, man, thief, Scarcely · **What happens:** fall, redouble, occur, be, lie, make · **To what, where:** floor, blows, corpse, Scarcely, length, resistance

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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 (corpse, man, thief, Scarcely), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1600`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:19:63
# text = The corpse fell on the floor, but the man only redoubled his blows, till at length it occurred to him it was odd that the thief should lie so still and make no resistance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	redoubled	redouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
20	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	csubj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	csubj	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	still	still	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the corpse |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 2 | **redouble** | past | the man | Scarcely's blows |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
| 3 | **occur** | past | the man *not said here* | corpse | Scarcely | length |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lie** | should | the thief |  |  |  |  | still *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | the thief *not said here* | no resistance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset resistance=Product |
| 7 | **blow** |  | Scarcely |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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