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title: From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer'… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel." Who acts: place, last porter, you, I.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 14

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From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel."

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**Who acts:** place, last porter, you, I · **What happens:** go, exclaim, lady, tell, buy, stock · **To what, where:** shop, last porter, despair, you, me, enough provisions · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, last porter, you, I), 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:pg128:6:14
# text = From this shop she went to a butcher's, a grocer's, and a poulterer's, till at last the porter exclaimed in despair, "My good lady, if you had only told me you were going to buy enough provisions to stock a town, I would have brought a horse, or rather a camel."
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	butcher	butcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grocer	grocer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	poulterer	poulterer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	stock	stock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux	_	_
55	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	62	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | place |  |  | this shop |  | to a butcher and a grocer | tree rules |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | participle |  | the last porter *not said here* |  | despair |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lady** *in a quote* |  | the last porter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  | you | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **buy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | enough provisions |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Theme |
| 7 | **stock** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a town |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** *in a quote* | would · perfect | I |  | a horse |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination |

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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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