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title: "Get a light," he called to the servant, "and follow me as fast as y… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: "Get a light," he called to the servant, "and follow me as fast as you can!" and rushing out of his room he ran towards the staircase. Who acts: servant, doctor, you. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 37

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"Get a light," he called to the servant, "and follow me as fast as you can!" and rushing out of his room he ran towards the staircase.

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**Who acts:** servant, doctor, you · **What happens:** get, call, follow, rush out, run · **To what, where:** light, servant, couple, room, staircase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, doctor, you), 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:pg128:19:37
# text = "Get a light," he called to the servant, "and follow me as fast as you can!" and rushing out of his room he ran towards the staircase.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | imperative | the servant *= servant* *not said here* | a light |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | doctor |  | the servant |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient |
| 3 | **follow** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | couple |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **rush out** | gerund | you *not said here* | doctor's room |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory |
| 5 | **run** | past | doctor | doctor's room *not said here* |  | the staircase |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent room=Theme towards staircase=Trajectory |

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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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