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title: She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Prin… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Princess Haiatelnefous all that had happened, as well as her plans for the future, and begged her assistance, which her friend readily promised. Who acts: Badoura, Princess Haiatelnefous, assistance, friend. A sentence of «The Arabian N
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 44

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She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Princess Haiatelnefous all that had happened, as well as her plans for the future, and begged her assistance, which her friend readily promised.

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**Who acts:** Badoura, Princess Haiatelnefous, assistance, friend · **What happens:** return, tell, happen, beg, friend, promise · **To what, where:** plans, assistance · **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 (Badoura, Princess Haiatelnefous, assistance, friend), 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:pg128:27:44
# text = She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Princess Haiatelnefous all that had happened, as well as her plans for the future, and begged her assistance, which her friend readily promised.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apartments	apartment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Haiatelnefous	Haiatelnefous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | Badoura |  |  |  | then | to Badoura's private apartments *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to apartment=Result |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Badoura |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect | the Princess Haiatelnefous | Badoura's plans for the future |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Badoura *not said here* | Badoura's assistance |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient |
| 5 | **friend** |  | Badoura's assistance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Badoura's friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **plan** |  | Badoura |  |  |  |  | for the future | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 8 | **assist** |  | Badoura |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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