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title: This, though quite natural, was highly displeasing to the elder sist… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This, though quite natural, was highly displeasing to the elder sisters, who fell into a passion of jealousy, which in the end caused a great deal of trouble and pain to several people. Who acts: elder sisters, jealousy. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 70

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This, though quite natural, was highly displeasing to the elder sisters, who fell into a passion of jealousy, which in the end caused a great deal of trouble and pain to several people.

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**Who acts:** elder sisters, jealousy · **What happens:** displease, fall, cause, deal · **To what, where:** passion, great deal, end, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder sisters, jealousy), 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:pg128:40:70
# text = This, though quite natural, was highly displeasing to the elder sisters, who fell into a passion of jealousy, which in the end caused a great deal of trouble and pain to several people.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	though	though	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	displeasing	displease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **displease** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | to the elder sisters; highly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the elder sisters |  |  |  |  | into a passion of jealousy *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result |
| 3 | **cause** | past | jealousy | a great deal of trouble to several people and pain |  |  | in the end |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition deal=Patient |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | trouble to several people and pain |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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