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title: Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that h… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that her sister Dinarzade should be sent for to speak to her. Who acts: cost. 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 92

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Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that her sister Dinarzade should be sent for to speak to her.

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**Who acts:** cost · **What happens:** go, prepare, beg, send, speak · **To what, where:** cost, sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cost), 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:pg128:1:92
# text = Then she went to prepare herself for the marriage, and begged that her sister Dinarzade should be sent for to speak to her.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | cost |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | cost *not said here* | cost |  |  |  | for the marriage | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Product for marriage=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | cost *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **send** | should · passive |  | cost's sister |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | cost |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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:** «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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