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title: In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire da… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire day, and when night came the tiresome creature roosted on the top of a very high tree where it could rest in safety. Who acts: hill, night, creature. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 89

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In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire day, and when night came the tiresome creature roosted on the top of a very high tree where it could rest in safety.

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**Who acts:** hill, night, creature · **What happens:** lead on, come, roost, rest · **To what, where:** Prince, fashion, tiresome creature, top, safety

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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 (hill, night, creature), 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:pg128:25:89
# text = In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire day, and when night came the tiresome creature roosted on the top of a very high tree where it could rest in safety.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dale	dale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
24	roosted	roost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead on** | past · passive | hill and dale | Prince |  | this fashion | day |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in fashion=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roost** | participle |  | the tiresome creature *not said here* |  | the top of a high tree |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
| 4 | **rest** | could | creature |  |  | safety |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in safety=Location |

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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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