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title: The prince and princess journeyed on, and at the end of a month reac… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince and princess journeyed on, and at the end of a month reached a huge meadow interspersed with clumps of big trees which cast a most pleasant shade. Who acts: prince, big trees. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 73

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The prince and princess journeyed on, and at the end of a month reached a huge meadow interspersed with clumps of big trees which cast a most pleasant shade.

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**Who acts:** prince, big trees · **What happens:** journey, reach, intersperse, cast · **To what, where:** huge meadow, end, pleasant shade

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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 (prince, big trees), 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:pg128:25:73
# text = The prince and princess journeyed on, and at the end of a month reached a huge meadow interspersed with clumps of big trees which cast a most pleasant shade.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	clumps	clump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | the prince and princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the prince and princess *not said here* | a huge meadow |  |  | at the end of a month |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme at end=Asset |
| 3 | **intersperse** | participle |  | a huge meadow *not said here* |  |  |  | with clumps of big trees | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with clump=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **cast** | present | big trees | a pleasant shade |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Product |

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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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