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title: And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put ever… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put every now and then a crumb, of bread into her mouth, that would not have made a meal for a sparrow. Who acts: all, Amina, that. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 78

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And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put every now and then a crumb, of bread into her mouth, that would not have made a meal for a sparrow.

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**Who acts:** all, Amina, that · **What happens:** try, do, be, not make · **To what, where:** other dishes, mouth, meal

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, Amina, that), 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:pg128:34:78
# text = And, instead of trying the other dishes, all she did was to put every now and then a crumb, of bread into her mouth, that would not have made a meal for a sparrow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj:outer	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund | all *not said here* | the other dishes |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past | Amina |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  | Amina's mouth |  | of bread; put *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make** | would · perfect | that | a meal |  |  |  | for a sparrow | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent meal=Product for sparrow=Asset |

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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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