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title: She then took the chain from the porter, and, raising the dog on its… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She then took the chain from the porter, and, raising the dog on its hind legs, they looked into each other's eyes sorrowfully till tears began to fall from both. Who acts: porter, dogs, tears. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 95

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She then took the chain from the porter, and, raising the dog on its hind legs, they looked into each other's eyes sorrowfully till tears began to fall from both.

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**Who acts:** porter, dogs, tears · **What happens:** take, raise, look, begin, fall · **To what, where:** chain, porter, dog, hind legs, both

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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, dogs, tears), 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:pg128:6:95
# text = She then took the chain from the porter, and, raising the dog on its hind legs, they looked into each other's eyes sorrowfully till tears began to fall from both.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | porter | the chain |  | the porter | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent chain=Theme from porter=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | porter *not said here* | the dog |  | chain's hind legs |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on leg=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  |  | into each other eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | tears |  |  |  |  | sorrowfully *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fall** | to-infinitive | tears *not said here* |  |  | both |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from both=Initial\_Location |

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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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