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title: This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing hers… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing herself as quickly as possible, hastened to the apartment of the fair Persian, to find that Noureddin had already gone out. Who acts: news, lady, Noureddin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 36

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This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing herself as quickly as possible, hastened to the apartment of the fair Persian, to find that Noureddin had already gone out.

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**Who acts:** news, lady, Noureddin · **What happens:** cause, dress, hasten, find, go out · **To what, where:** great consternation, news, apartment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (news, lady, Noureddin), 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:pg128:28:36
# text = This news caused great consternation to the lady, who, dressing herself as quickly as possible, hastened to the apartment of the fair Persian, to find that Noureddin had already gone out.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	consternation	consternation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dressing	dress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	already	already	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | this news | great consternation |  |  |  | to the lady | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition consternation=Patient |
| 2 | **dress** | gerund | the lady | news |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle | the lady *not said here* |  |  | the apartment of the fair Persian |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to apartment=Destination |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | this news *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **go out** | past · perfect | Noureddin |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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