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title: The merchant replied readily, "Look, this is the key of my shop: tak… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant replied readily, "Look, this is the key of my shop: take it, and put the vase wherever you like. Who acts: merchant, this, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 9

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The merchant replied readily, "Look, this is the key of my shop: take it, and put the vase wherever you like.

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**Who acts:** merchant, this, you · **What happens:** reply, look, be, take, put, like · **To what, where:** key, merchant, vase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, this, you), 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:pg128:36:9
# text = The merchant replied readily, "Look, this is the key of my shop: take it, and put the vase wherever you like.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the merchant |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | the merchant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | the key |  |  |  | of my shop | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | merchant |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the vase |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent vase=Goal |
| 6 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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