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title: Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred, and these hundreds I shall again lay out in glass, which will produce four hundred. Who acts: I, glass. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 40

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Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred, and these hundreds I shall again lay out in glass, which will produce four hundred.

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**Who acts:** I, glass · **What happens:** sell, turn, lay out, produce · **To what, where:** contents piece, two hundred, hundreds, glass, four hundred

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, glass), 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:pg128:20:40
# text = Now in selling the contents piece by piece I shall turn two hundred, and these hundreds I shall again lay out in glass, which will produce four hundred.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	compound	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | the contents piece |  |  | now | by piece; this hundreds *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | shall | I | two hundred |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
| 3 | **lay out** | shall | I | this hundreds *not said here* |  | glass | again |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme in glass=Destination |
| 4 | **produce** | future | glass | four hundred |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Result |

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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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