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title: Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covere… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covered with delicious fruits; while during the repast richly dressed girls sang softly and sweetly to stringed instruments. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 62

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Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covered with delicious fruits; while during the repast richly dressed girls sang softly and sweetly to stringed instruments.

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**What happens:** lay, cover, dress, sing · **To what, where:** Dinner, magnificent apartment, table, stringed instruments

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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: 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:pg128:38:62
# text = Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covered with delicious fruits; while during the repast richly dressed girls sang softly and sweetly to stringed instruments.
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	during	during	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
22	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	stringed	stringed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past · passive |  | Dinner |  | a magnificent apartment |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in apartment=Destination |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the table |  |  |  | with delicious fruits | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fruit=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  | stringed instruments |  | during the repast  dressed girls | softly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to instrument=Recipient |

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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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