--- title: The light in the prince's room surprised her, and without disturbing… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: The light in the prince's room surprised her, and without disturbing the slave, who slept across the threshold, she entered the room, and approaching the bed was still more astonished to find it occupied. Who acts: light, Maimoune, slave, approaching. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Maimoune, slave, approaching), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:23:10 # text = The light in the prince's room surprised her, and without disturbing the slave, who slept across the threshold, she entered the room, and approaching the bed was still more astonished to find it occupied. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 surprised surprise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 disturbing disturb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 across across ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 29 approaching approach VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 csubj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 astonished astonished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 occupied occupied ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **surprise** | past | the light in the prince's room | Maimoune | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 2 | **disturb** | gerund | Maimoune *not said here* | the slave | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slave=Experiencer | | 3 | **sleep** | past | the slave | | | the threshold | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **enter** | past | Maimoune | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 5 | **approach** | gerund | | the bed | | | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | approaching | | | | still | astonished *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | approaching *not said here* | light | | | | occupied *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/11/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/23/)