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title: But as he still remained in a profound slumber she pressed a kiss on… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he still remained in a profound slumber she pressed a kiss on his cheek and soon fell fast asleep too. Who acts: heart, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 108

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But as he still remained in a profound slumber she pressed a kiss on his cheek and soon fell fast asleep too.

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**Who acts:** heart, princess · **What happens:** remain, press, fall · **To what, where:** profound slumber, kiss, cheek

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, princess), 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:pg128:23:108
# text = But as he still remained in a profound slumber she pressed a kiss on his cheek and soon fell fast asleep too.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | heart |  |  | a profound slumber | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slumber=Location |
| 2 | **press** | past | princess | a kiss |  | heart's cheek |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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