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title: Then the prince drew him up all dripping wet, but the slave begged l… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the prince drew him up all dripping wet, but the slave begged leave to change his clothes first, and as soon as the prince consented hurried off just as he was to the palace. Who acts: prince, slave. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its de
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 115

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Then the prince drew him up all dripping wet, but the slave begged leave to change his clothes first, and as soon as the prince consented hurried off just as he was to the palace.

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**Who acts:** prince, slave · **What happens:** draw up, beg, change, consent, hurry off, be · **To what, where:** man, leave, clothes, palace

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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 (prince, slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:1965`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:23:115
# text = Then the prince drew him up all dripping wet, but the slave begged leave to change his clothes first, and as soon as the prince consented hurried off just as he was to the palace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	dripping	dripping	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw up** | past | the prince | man |  |  | then | wet *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the slave | leave |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient |
| 3 | **change** | to-infinitive | the slave *not said here* | prince's clothes |  |  |  | first *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 4 | **consent** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurry off** | past | the slave *not said here* |  |  | the palace |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 6 | **be** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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