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title: At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rat… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rather than break faith with the Prince of Persia by consenting to such a marriage, she determined to feign madness. Who acts: senses, announcement. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39, wi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 66

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At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rather than break faith with the Prince of Persia by consenting to such a marriage, she determined to feign madness.

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**Who acts:** senses, announcement · **What happens:** begin, come back, break, consent, determine, feign · **To what, where:** length, announcement, faith, madness

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (senses, announcement), 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:pg128:39:66
# text = At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rather than break faith with the Prince of Persia by consenting to such a marriage, she determined to feign madness.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	consenting	consent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	feign	feign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | announcement's senses |  |  | length |  | slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come back** | to-infinitive | announcement's senses *not said here* |  | announcement |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **break** | infinitive |  | faith |  |  | then | with the Prince of Persia | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent faith=Patient with prince=Instrument |
| 4 | **consent** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to such marriage | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme |
| 5 | **determine** | past | announcement |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **feign** | to-infinitive | announcement *not said here* | madness |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=Patient |

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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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