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title: From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on perceiving how handsome and fascinating he was. Who acts: princess, man. 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 99

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From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on perceiving how handsome and fascinating he was.

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**Who acts:** princess, man · **What happens:** pass, delight, perceive, be · **To what, where:** surprise

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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 (princess, man), 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:pg128:23:99
# text = From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on perceiving how handsome and fascinating he was.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	delight	delight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | princess |  |  | surprise |  | to admiration; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from surprise=Initial\_Location to admiration=Destination |
| 2 | **delight** | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **perceive** | gerund | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **be** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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