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title: He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook, who began to cook them as she had done the four others on the previous day. Who acts: genius, cook. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 28

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He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook, who began to cook them as she had done the four others on the previous day.

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**Who acts:** genius, cook · **What happens:** take, shut up, begin, cook, do · **To what, where:** fish, kitchen, genius, four others

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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 (genius, cook), 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:pg128:5:28
# text = He then took them to the kitchen and shut himself up with the cook, who began to cook them as she had done the four others on the previous day.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | genius | fish |  | the kitchen | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to kitchen=Destination |
| 2 | **shut up** | infinitive | genius *not said here* | genius |  |  |  | with the cook | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with cook=Instrument |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cook** | to-infinitive | the cook *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | cook | the four others |  |  | day |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |

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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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