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title: Alnaschar, in order to make the best of it, laid it out in glasses,… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Alnaschar, in order to make the best of it, laid it out in glasses, bottles, and the finest earthenware. Who acts: Alnaschar. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 10

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Alnaschar, in order to make the best of it, laid it out in glasses, bottles, and the finest earthenware.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar · **What happens:** make, lay out · **To what, where:** best, order, glasses

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:16:10
# text = Alnaschar, in order to make the best of it, laid it out in glasses, bottles, and the finest earthenware.
1	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | Alnaschar *not said here* | the best of order |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product |
| 2 | **lay out** | past | Alnaschar | order |  | glasses and bottles |  | the finest earthenware *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in glass=Destination |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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