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title: The nurse, who had hastened after her charge, drew them back to the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The nurse, who had hastened after her charge, drew them back to the inner room, where the princess restored her ring to Camaralzaman. Who acts: nurse, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 47

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The nurse, who had hastened after her charge, drew them back to the inner room, where the princess restored her ring to Camaralzaman.

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**Who acts:** nurse, princess · **What happens:** hasten, draw back, restore, charge · **To what, where:** hangings, inner room, ring, Camaralzaman

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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 (nurse, princess), 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:pg128:25:47
# text = The nurse, who had hastened after her charge, drew them back to the inner room, where the princess restored her ring to Camaralzaman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Camaralzaman	Camaralzaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past · perfect | the nurse |  |  |  | after princess's charge |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **draw back** | past | the nurse | hangings *= hanging* |  | the inner room |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to room=Destination |
| 3 | **restore** | past | the princess | princess's ring | Camaralzaman |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to camaralzaman=Recipient |
| 4 | **charge** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act 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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