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title: The head was so cleverly cut off that it fell into the basin, and di… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The head was so cleverly cut off that it fell into the basin, and directly the blood ceased to flow. Who acts: duty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 100

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The head was so cleverly cut off that it fell into the basin, and directly the blood ceased to flow.

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**Who acts:** duty · **What happens:** cut off, fall, cease, flow · **To what, where:** head, blood, basin

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duty), 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:pg128:4:100
# text = The head was so cleverly cut off that it fell into the basin, and directly the blood ceased to flow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | past · passive |  | the head |  |  |  | cleverly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fall** | past | duty | the blood |  |  |  | into the basin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basin=Result |
| 3 | **cease** | participle |  | the blood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **flow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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