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title: However, he tried to console himself by removing all the beautiful f… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: However, he tried to console himself by removing all the beautiful furniture, which more than made up for the five hundred gold pieces he had lost. Who acts: Alnaschar. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 72

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However, he tried to console himself by removing all the beautiful furniture, which more than made up for the five hundred gold pieces he had lost.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar · **What happens:** try, remove, make up, lose · **To what, where:** console, beautiful furniture, 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 (Alnaschar), 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:pg128:21:72
# text = However, he tried to console himself by removing all the beautiful furniture, which more than made up for the five hundred gold pieces he had lost.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	removing	remove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Alnaschar | console |  |  |  | Alnaschar *obl*; however *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remove** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* | all beautiful furniture |  |  |  | for the hundred gold pieces | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Theme |
| 3 | **make up** | participle | Alnaschar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | Alnaschar | the hundred gold pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality |

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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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