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title: All things considered, she decided to accept, and after a few moment… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: All things considered, she decided to accept, and after a few moments silence said with a blush, which the king attributed to modesty: Who acts: things, blush. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 25

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All things considered, she decided to accept, and after a few moments silence said with a blush, which the king attributed to modesty:

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**Who acts:** things, blush · **What happens:** consider, decide, accept, say, king, attribute · **To what, where:** king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, blush), 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:pg128:26:25
# text = All things considered, she decided to accept, and after a few moments silence said with a blush, which the king attributed to modesty:
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	modesty	modesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | participle | all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **decide** | past | all things |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **accept** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | all things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all things *not said here* |  |  |  | after a moments silence | with a blush | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with blush=Manner |
| 5 | **king** |  | a blush |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **attribute** | participle |  | the king *not said here* |  |  |  | to modesty | tree rules |

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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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