--- title: Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw that she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever beheld. Who acts: prince, princess. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/) / 5 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 5 Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw that she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever beheld. **Who acts:** prince, princess · **What happens:** steal up, look, see, be, behold · **To what, where:** woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (prince, princess), 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:pg128:38:5 # text = Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw that she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever beheld. 1 Gently gently ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 28 beheld behold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal up** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | to the side of princess's bed; gently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | past | prince | | | | | at princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | princess | | | | | than any woman; beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **behold** | past · perfect | prince | any woman *not said here* | | | ever | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/6/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)