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title: As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled tog… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled together, and had the good fortune to get out of the town without being observed. Who acts: fair Persian, doorkeeper. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 29, sentence 42

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As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled together, and had the good fortune to get out of the town without being observed.

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**Who acts:** fair Persian, doorkeeper · **What happens:** put on, flee, have, get out, observe · **To what, where:** veil, good fortune, town

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. 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, doorkeeper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg128:2398`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:29:42
# text = As soon, then, as the fair Persian had put on her veil they fled together, and had the good fortune to get out of the town without being observed.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Persian	Persian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	together	together	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** | past · perfect | the fair Persian | Persian's veil |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent veil=Goal |
| 2 | **flee** | past | doorkeeper |  |  |  | then | soon, together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | doorkeeper *not said here* | the good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient |
| 4 | **get out** | to-infinitive | doorkeeper *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **observe** | gerund · passive | doorkeeper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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