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title: In a few minutes there entered a lady, and my brother perceived at t… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few minutes there entered a lady, and my brother perceived at the first glance that she was even more beautiful and more richly dressed than he had expected. Who acts: brother, lady. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency tree and
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 20

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In a few minutes there entered a lady, and my brother perceived at the first glance that she was even more beautiful and more richly dressed than he had expected.

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**Who acts:** brother, lady · **What happens:** enter, perceive, be, dress, expect · **To what, where:** lady, first glance, door

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, lady), 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:pg128:21:20
# text = In a few minutes there entered a lady, and my brother perceived at the first glance that she was even more beautiful and more richly dressed than he had expected.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past |  |  | a lady | there | minute |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lady=Destination |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | my brother |  |  | the first glance |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | lady |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dress** | participle | lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **expect** | past · perfect · passive |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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