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title: Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity which had gone to his head had disappeared with his basket of glass, and he was loudly bewailing his folly when a lady, evidently a person of consideration, rode by on a mule. Who acts: pitied Alnaschar, vanity. A sentence of «The Ara
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 84

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Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity which had gone to his head had disappeared with his basket of glass, and he was loudly bewailing his folly when a lady, evidently a person of consideration, rode by on a mule.

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**Who acts:** pitied Alnaschar, vanity · **What happens:** pity, laugh, go, disappear, bewail, ride · **To what, where:** head, folly, person

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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 (pitied Alnaschar, vanity), 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:pg128:20:84
# text = Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity which had gone to his head had disappeared with his basket of glass, and he was loudly bewailing his folly when a lady, evidently a person of consideration, rode by on a mule.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	pitied	pity	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	bewailing	bewail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	rode	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pity** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | some pitied Alnaschar |  |  |  |  | at herald | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past · perfect | the vanity |  |  | herald's head |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to head=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **disappear** | past · perfect | the vanity |  |  |  |  | with herald's basket of glass | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bewail** | past · progressive | vanity | herald's folly |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer folly=Stimulus |
| 6 | **ride** | participle |  | a person of consideration *not said here* |  |  |  | by a mule | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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