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title: The princess, ever on the look out for any chance of news of her bel… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess, ever on the look out for any chance of news of her beloved husband, went down to the harbour attended by some officers of the court, and arrived just as the captain was landing. Who acts: princess, captain, news. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 97

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The princess, ever on the look out for any chance of news of her beloved husband, went down to the harbour attended by some officers of the court, and arrived just as the captain was landing.

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**Who acts:** princess, captain, news · **What happens:** go down, attend, arrive, land, chance

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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 (princess, captain, news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2205`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:26:97
# text = The princess, ever on the look out for any chance of news of her beloved husband, went down to the harbour attended by some officers of the court, and arrived just as the captain was landing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:agent	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	landing	land	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband |  |  |  |  | to the harbour; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **attend** | participle | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | the princess on the look for any chance of news of rest's beloved husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **land** | past · progressive | the captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **chance** |  | news of rest's beloved husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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