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title: The report of her wonderful beauty has spread far and wide, and many… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The report of her wonderful beauty has spread far and wide, and many powerful kings have sent embassies to ask her hand in marriage. 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 32

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The report of her wonderful beauty has spread far and wide, and many powerful kings have sent embassies to ask her hand in marriage.

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**What happens:** spread, send, ask, report · **To what, where:** report, many powerful kings, hand, marriage, wonderful beauty

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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: 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:pg128:23:32
# text = The report of her wonderful beauty has spread far and wide, and many powerful kings have sent embassies to ask her hand in marriage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present · perfect · passive |  | the report of princess's wonderful beauty |  |  |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present · perfect · passive |  | many powerful kings |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination embassy=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  | princess's hand |  | marriage |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient |
| 4 | **report** |  |  | princess's wonderful beauty |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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