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title: Left alone with the mother, I again expressed the gratitude I felt,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Left alone with the mother, I again expressed the gratitude I felt, to her as well as to her daughter. Who acts: I, gratitude. 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 80

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Left alone with the mother, I again expressed the gratitude I felt, to her as well as to her daughter.

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**Who acts:** I, gratitude · **What happens:** leave, express, feel · **To what, where:** spell

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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, gratitude), 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:pg128:35:80
# text = Left alone with the mother, I again expressed the gratitude I felt, to her as well as to her daughter.
1	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the mother; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mother=Theme |
| 2 | **express** | past | I |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the gratitude |  | spell |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer |

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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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