--- title: Here she and the prince recognised each other, and in a moment they… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Here she and the prince recognised each other, and in a moment they were locked in each other's arms, where they tenderly embraced, wondering how they came to meet at last after so long a separation. Who acts: princess, hangings. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/) / 46 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 46 Here she and the prince recognised each other, and in a moment they were locked in each other's arms, where they tenderly embraced, wondering how they came to meet at last after so long a separation. **Who acts:** princess, hangings · **What happens:** recognise, lock, embrace, wonder, come, meet · **To what, where:** each, hangings, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, hangings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:25:46 # text = Here she and the prince recognised each other, and in a moment they were locked in each other's arms, where they tenderly embraced, wondering how they came to meet at last after so long a separation. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 recognised recognise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 6 obj _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 tenderly tenderly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 embraced embrace VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 wondering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 advcl _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ _ 36 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 separation separation NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | past | princess | each | | here | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | | 2 | **lock** | past · passive | | hangings *= hanging* | | | moment | each other's arms *obl* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **embrace** | past | hangings *= hanging* | | | | | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **come** | past | hangings *= hanging* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | hangings *= hanging* *not said here* | | | last | after a separation | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/25/)