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title: The fisherman asked for three days, which were granted, and he then… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The fisherman asked for three days, which were granted, and he then cast his nets in the lake, and again caught four different coloured fish. Who acts: fisherman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 35

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The fisherman asked for three days, which were granted, and he then cast his nets in the lake, and again caught four different coloured fish.

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**Who acts:** fisherman · **What happens:** ask, grant, cast, catch · **To what, where:** three days, nets, lake, four different coloured fish

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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 (fisherman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:443`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:5:35
# text = The fisherman asked for three days, which were granted, and he then cast his nets in the lake, and again caught four different coloured fish.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the fisherman |  |  |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grant** | past · passive |  | three days |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **cast** | past | fisherman | fisherman's nets |  | the lake | then |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme in lake=Destination |
| 4 | **catch** | past | fisherman *not said here* | four different coloured fish |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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