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title: I looked at each in turn, and then laid my paw on the false one, gla… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: I looked at each in turn, and then laid my paw on the false one, glancing at the same time at my master, so as to point it out. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 41

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I looked at each in turn, and then laid my paw on the false one, glancing at the same time at my master, so as to point it out.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** look, lay, glance, point out · **To what, where:** paw

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg128:35:41
# text = I looked at each in turn, and then laid my paw on the false one, glancing at the same time at my master, so as to point it out.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | I |  |  |  |  | in turn; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | past | I *not said here* | my paw |  |  | then | on the false one | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on one=Destination |
| 3 | **glance** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **point out** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | paw |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: 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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