--- title: There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its weight seemed full of something, and he noticed that it was fastened and sealed with lead, with the impression of a seal. Who acts: fish, sire, weight. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/) / 73 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 73 There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its weight seemed full of something, and he noticed that it was fastened and sealed with lead, with the impression of a seal. **Who acts:** fish, sire, weight · **What happens:** be, find, seem, notice, fasten, seal · **To what, where:** yellow pot, weight, seal · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fish, sire, weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:3:73 # text = There was no fish however, but he found a yellow pot, which by its weight seemed full of something, and he noticed that it was fastened and sealed with lead, with the impression of a seal. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 15 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 ccomp _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 impression impression NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | no fish | | | there | | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | sire | a yellow pot | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic | | 3 | **seem** | past | pot's weight | a yellow pot | | | | full *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute | | 4 | **notice** | past | sire | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **fasten** | past · passive | | weight | | | | with the impression of a seal | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with impression=Co-Patient | | 6 | **seal** | participle | | | | | | with lead | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **impress** | | | a seal | | | | | nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/74/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/3/)