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title: His eyes fell on the girdle which, he took up, and whilst inspecting… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes fell on the girdle which, he took up, and whilst inspecting the precious stones set in it he noticed a little pouch sewn to the girdle and fastened by a loop. Who acts: eyes, Prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 77

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His eyes fell on the girdle which, he took up, and whilst inspecting the precious stones set in it he noticed a little pouch sewn to the girdle and fastened by a loop.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Prince · **What happens:** fall, take up, inspect, set, notice, sew · **To what, where:** girdle, precious stones, little pouch

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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 (eyes, Prince), 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:pg128:25:77
# text = His eyes fell on the girdle which, he took up, and whilst inspecting the precious stones set in it he noticed a little pouch sewn to the girdle and fastened by a loop.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	inspecting	inspect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Prince's eyes |  |  | the girdle |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result |
| 2 | **take up** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **inspect** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the precious stones |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  |  |  | girdle |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
| 5 | **notice** | past | Prince | a little pouch |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pouch=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sew** | participle |  | a little pouch *not said here* |  |  |  | to the girdle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to girdle=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **fasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a loop | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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