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title: Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences. Who acts: fair Persian, 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 86

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Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.

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**Who acts:** fair Persian, Noureddin · **What happens:** consent, appear, disapprove, not scruple, warn · **To what, where:** festivities, 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 (fair Persian, 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:pg128:28:86
# text = Sometimes the fair Persian consented to appear at these festivities, but she disapproved of this lavish expenditure, and did not scruple to warn Noureddin of the probable consequences.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	disapproved	disapprove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	lavish	lavish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	scruple	scruple	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	consequences	consequence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | the fair Persian |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive | the fair Persian *not said here* |  |  | this festivities |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at festivity=Location |
| 3 | **disapprove** | past | Noureddin |  |  |  |  | of this lavish expenditure | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **scruple** | past · do-support | Noureddin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | Noureddin *not said here* |  | Noureddin of the probable consequences |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent noureddin=Recipient |

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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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