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title: Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in. Who acts: orders, force. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 35

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Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in.

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**Who acts:** orders, force · **What happens:** rush, inform, drive away, go in · **To what, where:** mistress, shrieks

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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 (orders, force), 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:pg128:28:35
# text = Then they rushed to the bath, informing their mistress with shrieks and tears that Noureddin had driven them away by force and gone in.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	informing	inform	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | orders *= order* |  |  |  | then | to the bath *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bath=Result |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | gerund | orders *= order* *not said here* |  | orders's mistress |  |  | with shrieks and tears | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient |
| 3 | **drive away** | past · perfect · passive | force | shrieks and tears |  |  |  | away *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme they=Destination |
| 4 | **go in** | participle | force *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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