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title: Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a co… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a cornelian engraved with various figures and strange characters. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 79

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Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a cornelian engraved with various figures and strange characters.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** be, open, find, engrave · **To what, where:** pouch, cornelian

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg128:25:79
# text = Curious as to what this might be, he opened the pouch and found a cornelian engraved with various figures and strange characters.
1	Curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cornelian	cornelian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | Prince | the pouch |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pouch=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | Prince *not said here* | a cornelian |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cornelian=Topic |
| 4 | **engrave** | participle |  | a cornelian *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP 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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