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title: Hassan fixed his eyes upon the ground, and remained some time silent… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: Hassan fixed his eyes upon the ground, and remained some time silent; then fetching a deep sigh, he looked up at the hermit, and thus complied with his request. Who acts: Hassan. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar., with its dependency tree
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Omar., sentence 6

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Hassan fixed his eyes upon the ground, and remained some time silent; then fetching a deep sigh, he looked up at the hermit, and thus complied with his request.

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**Who acts:** Hassan · **What happens:** fix, remain, fetch, look up, comply, request · **To what, where:** eyes, deep sigh

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Omar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hassan), 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:pg62868:7:6
# text = Hassan fixed his eyes upon the ground, and remained some time silent; then fetching a deep sigh, he looked up at the hermit, and thus complied with his request.
1	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	complied	comply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | Hassan | Hassan's eyes |  |  |  | upon the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Hassan *not said here* |  |  |  | time | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** | gerund | Hassan *not said here* | a deep sigh |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 4 | **look up** | past | Hassan |  |  |  |  | at the hermit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hermit=Theme |
| 5 | **comply** | participle | Hassan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Hassan's request; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **request** |  | Hassan |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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:** «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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