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title: The fisherman instead of answering took the lid of lead and shut it… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fisherman instead of answering took the lid of lead and shut it down quickly on the vase. Who acts: fisherman. 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 117

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The fisherman instead of answering took the lid of lead and shut it down quickly on the vase.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** answer, take, shut down · **To what, where:** lid, vase

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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 (fisherman), 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:pg128:3:117
# text = The fisherman instead of answering took the lid of lead and shut it down quickly on the vase.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | the fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the fisherman | the lid of lead |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |
| 3 | **shut down** | infinitive | the fisherman *not said here* | lid |  | the vase |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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