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title: The princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight. Who acts: princess, order, Aladdin. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 44

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The princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight.

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**Who acts:** princess, order, Aladdin · **What happens:** lift, go in, look, fall · **To what, where:** veil, love

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, order, Aladdin), 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:pg128:31:44
# text = The princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	advmod	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | the princess | order's veil |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 2 | **go in** | past | order |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Aladdin |  |  | love |  | with order; at sight | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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