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title: Towards midnight Maimoune floated lightly up from the well, intendin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards midnight Maimoune floated lightly up from the well, intending, according to her usual habit, to roam about the upper world as curiosity or accident might prompt. Who acts: Maimoune, curiosity. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its depend
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 9

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Towards midnight Maimoune floated lightly up from the well, intending, according to her usual habit, to roam about the upper world as curiosity or accident might prompt.

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**Who acts:** Maimoune, curiosity · **What happens:** float, intend, accord, roam, prompt · **To what, where:** well

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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 (Maimoune, curiosity), 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:pg128:23:9
# text = Towards midnight Maimoune floated lightly up from the well, intending, according to her usual habit, to roam about the upper world as curiosity or accident might prompt.
1	Towards	towards	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Maimoune	Maimoune	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	roam	roam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	prompt	prompt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | past | Maimoune |  |  | the well | midnight |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from well=Trajectory |
| 2 | **intend** | gerund | Maimoune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord well's usual habit | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **roam** | to-infinitive | Maimoune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the upper world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about world=Trajectory |
| 5 | **prompt** | might | curiosity or accident |  |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition |

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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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