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title: The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble. Who acts: tailor, reply, my. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 50

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The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble.

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**Who acts:** tailor, reply, my · **What happens:** listen, give, increase, reply, trouble · **To what, where:** me, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, reply, my), 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:pg128:8:50
# text = The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	compound	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	consolation	consolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the tailor |  |  |  |  | with attention | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **increase** | participle | tailor's reply and giving consolation | my trouble |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer trouble=Patient |
| 4 | **reply** |  | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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