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description: There were trees everywhere, and they were laden with flowers and fruit, while a crystal stream wandered in and out under their shadow. Who acts: trees, crystal stream. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 2

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There were trees everywhere, and they were laden with flowers and fruit, while a crystal stream wandered in and out under their shadow.

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**Who acts:** trees, crystal stream · **What happens:** be, lade, wander, shadow · **To what, where:** trees, shadow

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, crystal stream), 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:pg128:17:2
# text = There were trees everywhere, and they were laden with flowers and fruit, while a crystal stream wandered in and out under their shadow.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	under	under	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | trees |  |  | there |  | everywhere *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lade** | past · passive |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  | with flowers and fruit | tree rules |
| 3 | **wander** | past | a crystal stream |  |  | trees's shadow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shadow=Trajectory |
| 4 | **shadow** |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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:** «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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