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title: This advice pleased Maimoune and Danhasch, and the fairy at once tra… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This advice pleased Maimoune and Danhasch, and the fairy at once transformed herself into the shape of a gnat and settling on Camaralzaman's throat stung him so sharply that he awoke. Who acts: advice, Camaralzaman. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 84

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This advice pleased Maimoune and Danhasch, and the fairy at once transformed herself into the shape of a gnat and settling on Camaralzaman's throat stung him so sharply that he awoke.

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**Who acts:** advice, Camaralzaman · **What happens:** transform, settle, sting, awake · **To what, where:** Maimoune, shape, Camaralzaman

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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 (advice, Camaralzaman), 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:pg128:23:84
# text = This advice pleased Maimoune and Danhasch, and the fairy at once transformed herself into the shape of a gnat and settling on Camaralzaman's throat stung him so sharply that he awoke.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Danhasch	Danhasch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
13	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	gnat	gnat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	settling	settle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	stung	sting	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | past | this advice and the fairy | Maimoune |  |  |  | into the shape of a gnat *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into shape=Result |
| 2 | **settle** | gerund | this advice and the fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Camaralzaman's throat | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on throat=Topic |
| 3 | **sting** | past | this advice and the fairy *not said here* | Camaralzaman |  |  |  | sharply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **awake** | past | Camaralzaman |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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