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title: When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to tu… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle. Who acts: husband, wife. A sentence o
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

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When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle.

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**Who acts:** husband, wife · **What happens:** go away, tell, turn, throw down, take, leave · **To what, where:** slave, hand mill, cage, water, mirror, light · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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:pg128:4:25
# text = When her husband next went away for one day, she told on slave to turn under the bird's cage a hand-mill; another to throw water down from above the cage, and a third to take a mirror and turn it in front of its eyes, from left to right by the light of a candle.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	above	above	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
54	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
56	right	right	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
57	by	by	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go away** | past | wife's husband |  |  |  | day | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  | slave |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a hand mill |  | the bird's cage |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=Theme |
| 4 | **throw down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | water |  | the cage |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from cage=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | a mirror |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | present | wife *not said here* | mirror |  |  |  | in front of front's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in front=Topic |
| 7 | **leave** | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  | the light of a candle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to light=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **light** |  |  | a candle |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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