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title: But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had i… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had in his nets the carcase of an ass, he was much disappointed. Who acts: moment, sire. 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 62

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But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had in his nets the carcase of an ass, he was much disappointed.

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**Who acts:** moment, sire · **What happens:** see, have, be · **To what, where:** moment, fish, nets

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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 (moment, sire), 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:pg128:3:62
# text = But a moment afterwards, seeing that instead of a fish he only had in his nets the carcase of an ass, he was much disappointed.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	carcase	carcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | a moment *not said here* | a moment |  |  |  | instead a fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | sire | a fish *not said here* |  | sire's nets and the carcase of a ass |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | a moment |  |  |  |  | disappointed *property* | tree rules |

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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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