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title: "Do not be so angry, my good man," replied the Calender; "we should… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not be so angry, my good man," replied the Calender; "we should be very sorry to displease you;" so the quarrel was smoothed over, and supper began in good earnest. Who acts: Calender, we, supper. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 63

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"Do not be so angry, my good man," replied the Calender; "we should be very sorry to displease you;" so the quarrel was smoothed over, and supper began in good earnest.

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**Who acts:** Calender, we, supper · **What happens:** not be, reply, be, displease, smooth over, begin · **To what, where:** you, quarrel, good earnest · **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 (Calender, we, supper), 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:pg128:6:63
# text = "Do not be so angry, my good man," replied the Calender; "we should be very sorry to displease you;" so the quarrel was smoothed over, and supper began in good earnest.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Calender	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|Typo=Yes	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	displease	displease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	smoothed	smooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Calender |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **displease** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 5 | **smooth over** | past · passive |  | the quarrel |  |  |  | over *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **begin** | past | supper |  |  | good earnest |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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