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title: Their sorrow for their father was very deep, and they lived quietly… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Their sorrow for their father was very deep, and they lived quietly on in their new home, without feeling any desire to leave it for court gaieties or intrigues. Who acts: sorrow, children. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 38

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Their sorrow for their father was very deep, and they lived quietly on in their new home, without feeling any desire to leave it for court gaieties or intrigues.

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**Who acts:** sorrow, children · **What happens:** be, live, feel, leave, sorrow · **To what, where:** new home, desire

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, children), 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:pg128:41:38
# text = Their sorrow for their father was very deep, and they lived quietly on in their new home, without feeling any desire to leave it for court gaieties or intrigues.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	gaieties	gaiety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	intrigues	intrigue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | children's sorrow for children's father |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | children *= child* |  |  | children's new home |  | quietly *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on home=Location |
| 3 | **feel** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | any desire |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | desire |  |  |  | for court gaieties or intrigues | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme for gaiety=Recipient |
| 5 | **sorrow** |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for children's father | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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