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title: She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane re… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane repeated two or three words over it. Who acts: princess, mane. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 77

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She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane repeated two or three words over it.

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**Who acts:** princess, mane · **What happens:** bound, seize, repeat · **To what, where:** one side, one, two words, mane

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, mane), 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:pg128:10:77
# text = She bounded on one side, and seizing one of the hairs of his mane repeated two or three words over it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | past | princess |  |  | one side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund | princess *not said here* | one of the hairs of lion's mane |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 3 | **repeat** | participle | lion's mane *not said here* | two words |  | mane |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |

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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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