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title: At length they reached the capital of China, where they spent three… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they reached the capital of China, where they spent three days in a suitable lodging to recover from their fatigues. Who acts: roads. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 12

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At length they reached the capital of China, where they spent three days in a suitable lodging to recover from their fatigues.

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**Who acts:** roads · **What happens:** reach, spend, recover, fatigue · **To what, where:** capital, length, suitable lodging, fatigues

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads), 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:pg128:25:12
# text = At length they reached the capital of China, where they spent three days in a suitable lodging to recover from their fatigues.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lodging	lodging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fatigues	fatigue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | roads *= road* | the capital of China |  | length |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent capital=Theme at length=Asset |
| 2 | **spend** | past | roads *= road* |  |  | a suitable lodging | day |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **recover** | to-infinitive | roads *= road* *not said here* |  |  | roads's fatigues |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fatigue=Source |
| 4 | **fatigue** |  | roads *= road* |  |  |  |  |  | nom fatigue «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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