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title: She longed to throw herself on his neck, but restrained herself, fee… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She longed to throw herself on his neck, but restrained herself, feeling it was better for them both that she should play her part a little longer. Who acts: Badoura. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 41

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She longed to throw herself on his neck, but restrained herself, feeling it was better for them both that she should play her part a little longer.

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**Who acts:** Badoura · **What happens:** long, throw, restrain, feel, be, play · **To what, where:** Badoura, neck, part

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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 (Badoura), 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:pg128:27:41
# text = She longed to throw herself on his neck, but restrained herself, feeling it was better for them both that she should play her part a little longer.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	restrained	restrain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	both	both	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past | Badoura |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Badoura *not said here* | Badoura |  | captain's neck |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on neck=Destination |
| 3 | **restrain** | past | Badoura *not said here* | Badoura |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer herself=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | Badoura *not said here* |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | Badoura *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for clothes; good *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** | should | Badoura | Badoura's part |  |  |  | long *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

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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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