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title: That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could you… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in? Who acts: vase, whole body. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 113

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That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in?

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**Who acts:** vase, whole body · **What happens:** not contain, go in · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vase, whole body), 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:pg128:3:113
# text = That vase could not contain one of your feet even, and how could your whole body go in?
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **contain** | could | that vase | one of your feet |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
| 2 | **go in** | could | your whole body |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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