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title: She stood gazing at me attentively for some time, then paid for the… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: She stood gazing at me attentively for some time, then paid for the bread, and left the shop, making a sign for me to follow her secretly. Who acts: woman, me. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 53

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She stood gazing at me attentively for some time, then paid for the bread, and left the shop, making a sign for me to follow her secretly.

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**Who acts:** woman, me · **What happens:** stand, gaze, pay, leave, make, follow · **To what, where:** shop, sign, woman

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, me), 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:pg128:35:53
# text = She stood gazing at me attentively for some time, then paid for the bread, and left the shop, making a sign for me to follow her secretly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  | time | at me; attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for the bread | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bread=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | past | woman *not said here* | the shop |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | woman *not said here* | a sign |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 6 | **follow** | to-infinitive | me | woman |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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