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title: They dressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Maho… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: They dressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, living in Bagdad or India. Who acts: People. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 23

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They dressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, living in Bagdad or India.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** dress up, make, live · **To what, where:** fairy stories, characters, Bagdad

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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:pg128:1:23
# text = They dressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, living in Bagdad or India.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Mahommedans	Mahommedan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress up** | past | People | the fairy stories |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | People *not said here* | the characters and good Mahommedans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset character=Product |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | People *not said here* |  |  | Bagdad or India |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bagdad=Location |

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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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