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title: Now it happened that after things had been going on in this way for… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that after things had been going on in this way for some time the nurse's son Marzavan returned from his travels. Who acts: it, son. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 67

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Now it happened that after things had been going on in this way for some time the nurse's son Marzavan returned from his travels.

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**Who acts:** it, son · **What happens:** happen, go on, return, travel · **To what, where:** way, time

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, son), 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:pg128:24:67
# text = Now it happened that after things had been going on in this way for some time the nurse's son Marzavan returned from his travels.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	Marzavan	Marzavan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go on** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | this way | after things; time |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **return** | past | the nurse's son | some time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 4 | **travel** | present | the nurse's son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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