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title: But no sooner did she see her ring than, barely glancing at the writ… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: But no sooner did she see her ring than, barely glancing at the writing, she rose hastily and with one bound reached the doorway and pushed back the hangings. Who acts: princess, one bound. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree a
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 45

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But no sooner did she see her ring than, barely glancing at the writing, she rose hastily and with one bound reached the doorway and pushed back the hangings.

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**Who acts:** princess, one bound · **What happens:** see, glance, rise, reach, push back · **To what, where:** ring, doorway, hangings

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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 (princess, one bound), 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:pg128:25:45
# text = But no sooner did she see her ring than, barely glancing at the writing, she rose hastily and with one bound reached the doorway and pushed back the hangings.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · do-support | princess | princess's ring |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glance** | gerund | princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the writing; barely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at writing=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | past | one bound | the doorway |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent doorway=Theme |
| 5 | **push back** | past | one bound *not said here* | the hangings |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hanging=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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