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title: On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house which had been prepared for him, where he found a full establishment and well-filled stables at his orders. Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tr
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 53

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On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house which had been prepared for him, where he found a full establishment and well-filled stables at his orders.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** leave, conduct, prepare, find, fill, order · **To what, where:** council, prince, splendid house, full establishment, stables, orders

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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), 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:pg128:27:53
# text = On leaving the council the prince was conducted to a splendid house which had been prepared for him, where he found a full establishment and well-filled stables at his orders.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	establishment	establishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
30	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | the council |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme |
| 2 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | the prince |  | a splendid house |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to house=Destination |
| 3 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | a splendid house |  |  |  | for prince | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **find** | past | prince | a full establishment |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Topic |
| 5 | **fill** | participle | prince *not said here* | stables |  | prince's orders |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient |
| 6 | **order** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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