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title: When the prince and princess lay thus side by side, an animated disp… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 63

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When the prince and princess lay thus side by side, an animated dispute as to their respective charms arose between the fairy and the genius.

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**Who acts:** prince, respective charms · **What happens:** lay, arise · **To what, where:** side

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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, respective charms), 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:pg128:23:63
# text = When the prince and princess lay thus side by side, an animated dispute as to their respective charms arose between the fairy and the genius.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	animated	animated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	respective	respective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | the prince and princess | side |  |  |  | by side | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination |
| 2 | **arise** | past | envoys's respective charms |  |  |  |  | between the fairy and the genius | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between fairy=Location |

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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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