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title: He then locked the door, gave up the key to the owner of the garden,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He then locked the door, gave up the key to the owner of the garden, and hurried to the quay only to hear that the ship had sailed long ago, after waiting three hours for him. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 90

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He then locked the door, gave up the key to the owner of the garden, and hurried to the quay only to hear that the ship had sailed long ago, after waiting three hours for him.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** lock, give up, hurry, hear, sail, wait · **To what, where:** door, key, owner, quay, ship

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg128:26:90
# text = He then locked the door, gave up the key to the owner of the garden, and hurried to the quay only to hear that the ship had sailed long ago, after waiting three hours for him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	locked	lock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	quay	quay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | past | man | the door |  |  | then |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **give up** | past | man *not said here* | the key | the owner of the garden |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to owner=Recipient |
| 3 | **hurry** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  | the quay |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to quay=Destination |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sail** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ship |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  | hour | for man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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