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title: Sure enough the bird settled slowly down upon it, covering it with i… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sure enough the bird settled slowly down upon it, covering it with its wings to keep it warm, and I cowered close beside the egg in such a position that one of the bird's feet, which was as large as the trunk of a tree, was just in front of me. Who acts: bird, I. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights En
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 22

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Sure enough the bird settled slowly down upon it, covering it with its wings to keep it warm, and I cowered close beside the egg in such a position that one of the bird's feet, which was as large as the trunk of a tree, was just in front of me.

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**Who acts:** bird, I · **What happens:** settle, cover, keep, cower, be · **To what, where:** bird, one, egg, front

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, I), 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:pg128:14:22
# text = Sure enough the bird settled slowly down upon it, covering it with its wings to keep it warm, and I cowered close beside the egg in such a position that one of the bird's feet, which was as large as the trunk of a tree, was just in front of me.
1	Sure	sure	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	cowered	cower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	just	just	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **settle** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | upon object; down, sure *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | the bird *not said here* | bird |  |  |  | with bird's wings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with wing=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the bird *not said here* | bird |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **cower** | past | I | one of the bird's feet |  | the egg in such position |  | close *property* | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the trunk of a tree; large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  | front |  | of me | tree rules |

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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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