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title: What was his astonishment at seeing that there were four quite diffe… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: What was his astonishment at seeing that there were four quite different kinds, some white, some red, some blue, and some yellow. Who acts: astonishment, four different kinds. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 128

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What was his astonishment at seeing that there were four quite different kinds, some white, some red, some blue, and some yellow.

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**Who acts:** astonishment, four different kinds · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** astonishment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (astonishment, four different kinds), 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:pg128:4:128
# text = What was his astonishment at seeing that there were four quite different kinds, some white, some red, some blue, and some yellow.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | fisherman's astonishment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | fisherman's astonishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **be** | past | four different kinds |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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