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title: The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor, and the moment she was out of sight the tailor and his wife carried the body swiftly after her, propped it up at the top of the staircase, and ran home as fast as their legs could carry them. Who acts: servant, moment, tailor, legs.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 35

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The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor, and the moment she was out of sight the tailor and his wife carried the body swiftly after her, propped it up at the top of the staircase, and ran home as fast as their legs could carry them.

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**Who acts:** servant, moment, tailor, legs · **What happens:** remount, give, be, carry, prop up, run · **To what, where:** stairs, message, doctor, sight, body, top

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, moment, tailor, legs), 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:pg128:19:35
# text = The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor, and the moment she was out of sight the tailor and his wife carried the body swiftly after her, propped it up at the top of the staircase, and ran home as fast as their legs could carry them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remounted	remount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	propped	prop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
46	home	home	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	as	as	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remount** | past | the servant | the stairs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | the servant *not said here* | the message | the doctor |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Theme to doctor=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the moment |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry** | past | the tailor and doctor's wife | the body |  |  | after servant | swiftly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 5 | **prop up** | past | the tailor and doctor's wife *not said here* | body |  | the top of the staircase |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at top=Destination |
| 6 | **run** | past | the tailor and doctor's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **carry** | could | tailor's legs | tailor |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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