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title: But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some way out of the difficulty, and seizing the hunchback in his arms he carried him out into the street, and leaning him against the wall of a shop he stole back to his own house, without once looking behind him. Who acts: revenge. A sen
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 70

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But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some way out of the difficulty, and seizing the hunchback in his arms he carried him out into the street, and leaning him against the wall of a shop he stole back to his own house, without once looking behind him.

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**Who acts:** revenge · **What happens:** get, begin, think, seize, carry out, lean · **To what, where:** first shock, hunchback, arms, street, revenge, wall

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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 (revenge), 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:pg128:19:70
# text = But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some way out of the difficulty, and seizing the hunchback in his arms he carried him out into the street, and leaning him against the wall of a shop he stole back to his own house, without once looking behind him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	against	against	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	back	back	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	56	advmod	_	_
56	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
57	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | revenge |  |  | the first shock |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over shock=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | past | revenge | the first shock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | revenge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of some way out the difficulty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seize** | gerund | revenge *not said here* | the hunchback |  | revenge's arms |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Theme |
| 5 | **carry out** | past | revenge | Hunchback |  | the street |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 6 | **lean** | gerund | revenge *not said here* | revenge |  | the wall of a shop |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme against wall=Destination |
| 7 | **steal** | past | revenge | a shop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shop=Theme |
| 8 | **look** | gerund | revenge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind revenge; once *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=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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