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title: First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand sequins, and another like to it of crimson stuff. Who acts: bed. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 60

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First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand sequins, and another like to it of crimson stuff.

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**Who acts:** bed · **What happens:** cost · **To what, where:** thousand sequins

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1517`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:18:60
# text = First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand sequins, and another like to it of crimson stuff.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	sequins	sequin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cost** | past | a bed with complete hangings  all cloth of gold | thousand sequins |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sequin=Value |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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