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title: Then she had the other jars opened, and was more and more surprised… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she had the other jars opened, and was more and more surprised to find the olives in each jar mixed with gold dust. Who acts: Badoura, other jars. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 16

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Then she had the other jars opened, and was more and more surprised to find the olives in each jar mixed with gold dust.

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**Who acts:** Badoura, other jars · **What happens:** have, open, be, find, mix · **To what, where:** olives, jar

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Badoura, other jars), 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:pg128:27:16
# text = Then she had the other jars opened, and was more and more surprised to find the olives in each jar mixed with gold dust.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	jars	jar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	olives	olive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Badoura |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | the other jars |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the olives |  | each jar |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Topic |
| 6 | **mix** | participle |  | each jar *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold dust | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dust=Co-Patient |

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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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