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title: At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily,… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily, and snatching up some of the tapers which lighted the room, conducted the prince to a large and lofty room, where two of the number prepared his bed, and the rest went down to the kitchen, from which they soon returned with all sor
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 19

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At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily, and snatching up some of the tapers which lighted the room, conducted the prince to a large and lofty room, where two of the number prepared his bed, and the rest went down to the kitchen, from which they soon returned with all sorts of dishes.

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**Who acts:** attendants, tapers, two, rest · **What happens:** rise, dress, snatch up, light, conduct, prepare · **To what, where:** sign, attendants, some, room, prince, large room

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, tapers, two, rest), 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:pg128:38:19
# text = At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily, and snatching up some of the tapers which lighted the room, conducted the prince to a large and lofty room, where two of the number prepared his bed, and the rest went down to the kitchen, from which they soon returned with all sorts of dishes.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	snatching	snatch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lighted	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
26	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obl	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	58	advmod	_	_
58	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	61	det	_	_
61	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | attendants *= attendant* |  |  | a sign from attendants's mistress |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at sign=Location |
| 2 | **dress** | past | attendants *= attendant* *not said here* | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  | hastily *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **snatch up** | gerund |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 4 | **light** | past | the tapers | the room |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product |
| 5 | **conduct** | past | attendants *= attendant* *not said here* | the prince |  | a large room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to room=Destination |
| 6 | **prepare** | past | two of the number | prince's bed |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 7 | **go down** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  | to the kitchen; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **return** | past | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  |  | with all sorts of dishes; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | dishes |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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