--- title: After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small room hung with blue and gold, looking out into a garden stocked with flowers and arbutus trees, quite different from any that were to be found in Persia. Who acts: ladies. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/63/) [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/) / 63 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 63 After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small room hung with blue and gold, looking out into a garden stocked with flowers and arbutus trees, quite different from any that were to be found in Persia. **Who acts:** ladies · **What happens:** finish, pass, hang, look out, stock, find · **To what, where:** prince, small room, garden, Persia 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), 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:pg128:38:63 # text = After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small room hung with blue and gold, looking out into a garden stocked with flowers and arbutus trees, quite different from any that were to be found in Persia. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 stocked stock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 arbutus arbutus NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 quite quite ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 34 obl _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | the prince and princess | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **pass** | past | ladies *= lady* | | | a small room | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **hang** | participle | | a small room *not said here* | | | | with blue and gold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look out** | gerund | ladies *= lady* *not said here* | | | a garden | | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stock** | participle | | a garden *not said here* | | | | with flowers and arbutus trees | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | | 6 | **find** | past · passive | | | | Persia | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/38/)