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title: The prince was not asleep, and as he lay awake moaning over all the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince was not asleep, and as he lay awake moaning over all the sad events which had separated him from his wife, he thought he heard a knock at the garden door. Who acts: prince, captain. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tre
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 30

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The prince was not asleep, and as he lay awake moaning over all the sad events which had separated him from his wife, he thought he heard a knock at the garden door.

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**Who acts:** prince, captain · **What happens:** not be, lie, moan, separate, think, hear · **To what, where:** sad events, knock, garden door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, captain), 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:pg128:27:30
# text = The prince was not asleep, and as he lay awake moaning over all the sad events which had separated him from his wife, he thought he heard a knock at the garden door.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
11	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | past | captain |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **moan** | gerund | captain *not said here* |  |  | all sad events |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over event=Location |
| 4 | **separate** | past · perfect · passive |  | all sad events |  |  |  | from captain's wife | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **hear** | past | captain | a knock |  | the garden door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer knock=Stimulus |

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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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