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title: His one thought was how to be revenged on that wicked old hag, and f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: His one thought was how to be revenged on that wicked old hag, and for this purpose he had a purse made large enough to contain five hundred gold pieces, but filled it instead with bits of glass. Who acts: door. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 34

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His one thought was how to be revenged on that wicked old hag, and for this purpose he had a purse made large enough to contain five hundred gold pieces, but filled it instead with bits of glass.

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** be, have, make, contain, fill, think · **To what, where:** one thought, purse, hundred gold pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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:pg128:21:34
# text = His one thought was how to be revenged on that wicked old hag, and for this purpose he had a purse made large enough to contain five hundred gold pieces, but filled it instead with bits of glass.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	revenged	revenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hag	hag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | door's one thought |  |  |  | on wicked old hag; revenge *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | door | a purse |  |  |  | for this purpose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a purse *not said here* |  |  |  | large *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **contain** | to-infinitive |  | hundred gold pieces |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | past | door *not said here* | purse |  |  |  | with bits of glass; instead *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bit=Instrument |
| 6 | **think** |  | door |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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