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title: As soon as the Sultan had the fish he had them carried to his room w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the Sultan had the fish he had them carried to his room with all that was needed to cook them. Who acts: Sultan, that. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 37

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As soon as the Sultan had the fish he had them carried to his room with all that was needed to cook them.

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**Who acts:** Sultan, that · **What happens:** have, carry, need, cook · **To what, where:** fish, room, that

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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 (Sultan, that), 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:pg128:5:37
# text = As soon as the Sultan had the fish he had them carried to his room with all that was needed to cook them.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Sultan | the fish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past · perfect |  |  |  | Sultan's room |  | soon *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to room=Destination |
| 3 | **need** | past · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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