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title: The porter looked about him, noticing and admiring everything; but h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The porter looked about him, noticing and admiring everything; but his attention was specially attracted by a third lady sitting on the throne, who was even more beautiful than the other two. Who acts: porter, third lady, throne, lion. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 22

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The porter looked about him, noticing and admiring everything; but his attention was specially attracted by a third lady sitting on the throne, who was even more beautiful than the other two.

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**Who acts:** porter, third lady, throne, lion · **What happens:** look, notice, admire, attract, sit, be · **To what, where:** everything, attention, throne

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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 (porter, third lady, throne, lion), 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:pg128:6:22
# text = The porter looked about him, noticing and admiring everything; but his attention was specially attracted by a third lady sitting on the throne, who was even more beautiful than the other two.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the porter |  |  |  |  | about lion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | gerund | the porter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **admire** | gerund | the porter *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
| 4 | **attract** | past · passive | a third lady | lion's attention |  |  |  | specially *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | a third lady *not said here* |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | the throne |  |  |  |  | than the other two; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **attend** |  | lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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