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title: So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and move… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance. Who acts: man, enemy, country. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 47

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So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance.

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**Who acts:** man, enemy, country · **What happens:** sell, contain, move, be · **To what, where:** house, little furniture, capital

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, enemy, country), 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:pg128:9:47
# text = So he sold his house and the little furniture it contained, and moved into the capital of the country, which was luckily at no great distance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | man | man's house and the little furniture |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | past | enemy | the little furniture *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot furniture=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | the capital of the country and no great distance |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into capital=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the country and no great distance |  |  |  |  | at no great distance; luckily *property* | tree rules |

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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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