--- title: When she dressed the following morning, her maids noticed that, cont… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: When she dressed the following morning, her maids noticed that, contrary to her usual habit, the princess was very particular about her toilette, and insisted on her hair being dressed two or three times over. " Who acts: princess, maids. 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" **Who acts:** princess, maids · **What happens:** dress, follow, notice, be, insist · **To what, where:** hair 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 (princess, maids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg128:38:27 # text = When she dressed the following morning, her maids noticed that, contrary to her usual habit, the princess was very particular about her toilette, and insisted on her hair being dressed two or three times over. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 maids maid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 contrary contrary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 habit habit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 toilette toilette NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 insisted insist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 33 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 35 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 36 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 38 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | past | princess | | | | morning | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **notice** | past | princess's maids | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | the princess | | | | | about princess's toilette; particular *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **insist** *speech: other* | participle | princess's maids *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dress** | gerund · passive | princess's maids *not said here* | | | princess's hair | time | over *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/28/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)