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title: But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.” — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Bozaldab., sentence 9

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But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** eyes, interesting scene

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Bozaldab.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg62868:20:9
# text = But turn thine eyes to another and more interesting scene.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | thine eyes |  | another interesting scene |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to scene=Trajectory |

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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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