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title: Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the neighbours, finding the place empty, informed the police, who next morning arrested Alnaschar as a thief. Who acts: Alnaschar, place, police. 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 73

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Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the neighbours, finding the place empty, informed the police, who next morning arrested Alnaschar as a thief.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar, place, police · **What happens:** leave, forget, not lock, find, inform, arrest · **To what, where:** house, neighbours, door, place, police, Alnaschar

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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, place, police), 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:pg128:21:73
# text = Unluckily, on leaving the house, he forgot to lock the door, and the neighbours, finding the place empty, informed the police, who next morning arrested Alnaschar as a thief.
1	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	informed	inform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	arrested	arrest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Alnaschar | the neighbours |  |  |  | unluckily *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **lock** | to-infinitive | Alnaschar *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* | the place |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 5 | **inform** *speech: other* | participle | the place *not said here* | the police |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient |
| 6 | **arrest** | past | the police | Alnaschar |  |  | morning | as a thief | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent alnaschar=Patient as thief=Attribute |

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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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