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description: When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan. Who acts: cook, fish. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 18

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When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan.

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**Who acts:** cook, fish · **What happens:** recover, lift up, fall, find, not fit, serve up · **To what, where:** cook, fright, fish, ashes, Sultan

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, fish), 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:pg128:5:18
# text = When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cook |  | cook's fright |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fright=Source |
| 2 | **lift up** | past | cook | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past · perfect | the fish |  |  |  |  | into the ashes *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ash=Result |
| 4 | **find** | past | cook | fish |  |  |  | black *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **fit** | infinitive | cook *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **serve up** | to-infinitive | cook *not said here* |  | the Sultan |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient |
| 7 | **fright** |  | cook |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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