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title: And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in all the Indies, that no one was allowed to wear except members of the royal family. Who acts: ladies, one. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 30

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And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in all the Indies, that no one was allowed to wear except members of the royal family.

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**Who acts:** ladies, one · **What happens:** put, allow, wear · **To what, where:** robe, shoulders, one, members

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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 (ladies, one), 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:pg128:38:30
# text = And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in all the Indies, that no one was allowed to wear except members of the royal family.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Indies	indy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	except	except	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | princess's ladies | a robe of the richest stuff in all Indies |  | princess's shoulders |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent robe=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | no one |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | members of the royal family |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent member=Source |

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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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