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title: It seemed to me most extraordinary, and, feeling a movement of pity,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to me most extraordinary, and, feeling a movement of pity, I ordered the steward to lead her away and bring another. Who acts: It, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 94

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It seemed to me most extraordinary, and, feeling a movement of pity, I ordered the steward to lead her away and bring another.

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**Who acts:** It, I · **What happens:** seem, feel, order, lead away, bring, move · **To what, where:** me, movement, steward, cow, another, pity

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I), 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:pg128:2:94
# text = It seemed to me most extraordinary, and, feeling a movement of pity, I ordered the steward to lead her away and bring another.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | me |  |  | extraordinary *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | I *not said here* | a movement of pity |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past | I | the steward |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steward=Theme |
| 4 | **lead away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | cow |  |  |  | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | another |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
| 6 | **move** |  |  | pity |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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