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title: Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves duri… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come. Who acts: daughter, beauty. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its depende
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 31

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Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come.

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**Who acts:** daughter, beauty · **What happens:** act, order, watch, not allow, enter, come · **To what, where:** decision, two little slaves, beautiful Persian, Noureddin

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, beauty), 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:pg128:28:31
# text = Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come.
1	Acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	_
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
25	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | gerund |  |  |  | this decision | during daughter's absence | forthwith *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on decision=Eventuality |
| 2 | **order** | past | daughter | two little slaves |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the beautiful Persian |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over persian=Location |
| 4 | **not** **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  | Noureddin |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer noureddin=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **enter** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | should | beauty |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **absent** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state 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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