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title: She waited for him till evening rather impatiently, and wondering wh… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She waited for him till evening rather impatiently, and wondering what could have kept him from her so long. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 9

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She waited for him till evening rather impatiently, and wondering what could have kept him from her so long.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** wait, wonder, keep · **To what, where:** husband · **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 (wife), 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:pg128:26:9
# text = She waited for him till evening rather impatiently, and wondering what could have kept him from her so long.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	till	till	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | wife |  |  |  | evening | for husband; impatiently *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** | could · perfect |  | husband |  |  |  | from wife; long *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute |

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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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